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Apium Petroselinum. Or Common
Parsley, every part of which is used, tho the root is the most
efficacious and this is used in decoction; Dr Rush spoke
highly of the seed as a usefull Diuretic in Dropsy, and
I told am told that Dr Cornwell of this City has succeeded
with it when every thing else had fail'd.

* In Preventing Abortion. I have know this prevent abortion
in a Lady of this City who miscarried five successive times
the Sixth pregnancy I put her on the use of Digitalis which
she continued for several months and succeeded in bringing
into the world a healthy child which I attributed to the
use of Digitalis.