Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . rought from Turkey and the Eiul In-dies ; and its virtues are ihofe of an attenuating and ape-rient medicine. Boerhaave freqeuntly employed it,along ammoniacum and , in hypocon-driacal difcrders, obftrucffions of the abdi. vifce-ra, and fuppreQions of themenftrual evacuations froma fluggiihnefs of raucous humours, and a want of dueelallicity of the f ilids : with th
Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . rought from Turkey and the Eiul In-dies ; and its virtues are ihofe of an attenuating and ape-rient medicine. Boerhaave freqeuntly employed it,along ammoniacum and , in hypocon-driacal difcrders, obftrucffions of the abdi. vifce-ra, and fuppreQions of themenftrual evacuations froma fluggiihnefs of raucous humours, and a want of dueelallicity of the f ilids : with thefe intentions it is anulelul ingredient in the piluls gummofx and compoundpowder of myrrh cf the London pharmacoj-ccia, but itis not employed in any compoficion of the may be given by itfelf in the dofe of a Icruple, orhalf a dram: a whole dram proves in many gently purgative: alfo difpcls flatulencies, isgood in afthnias, in inveterate coughs, and in difor-ders of the head and nerves. Doctor Woodville, in his Medical Botany, gives account of this vegetable. It is of thedijyiia order, vcoA j>.nUwdria clafs of plants : the root is perennial^ Flat*- CCCLl. I 1 ?f O P o 251 OPT Opojiarax perennial, thick, flefliy, tapering like the garden parf- leJ with its , but no clfciitlal oil ii obvaincJ on > nep : the (lalk is llronj;;, branched, rough towards the moderate qii::nlitlcs to the operation. bottom, and rilts fevcn cr eight icet in lieight: the See Pastanaca, of which cpopanax is a arc pinn:cted, confifting of feveral pairs of pinna-, OPORTO, or Porto ; a rich, liandfome, and con-vvhich are oblonp, ferrated, veined, and towards thi fidcrable town of Portugal, in the province rf Eutrebafe appear nnformed on the upper fide: the flowers Douro and Minho, with a biihops ft-c. It is a pi icearc fmall, of a jellowilh colour, and terminate tlie of great importance, and by nature almoft impregnable,fteni
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