300. ANCHUSA angustifolia. BUGLOSS. The Roots, Leaves, and Flowers.-- Bugloss has a slimy sweetish taste, accompanied with a kind of coolness: the roots are the most glutinous, and the flowers the least so. These qualities point out its use in hot bilious or inflammatory distempers, and a thin acrimonious state of the fluids. The flowers are one of the four called cordial flowers: the only quality they have that can entitle them to this appellation, is, that they moderately cool and soften, without offending the palate or stomach; and thus in warm climates, or in hot diseases, may in some measure refresh the patient. 301. ANEMONE Hepatica. HEPATICA. The Leaves.--It is a cooling gently restringent herb; and hence recommended in a lax state of the fibres as a corroborant. 302. ANTIRRHINIUM Elatine. FLUELLIN. The Root, Bark, and Leaves.--They were formerly accounted excellent vulneraries, and of great use for cleansing and healing old ulcers and cancerous sores: some have recommended them internally in leprous and scrophulous disorders; as also in hydropic cases. 303. ANTIRRHINIUM Linaria. TOAD FLAX. The Flowers.--An infusion of them is said to be very efficacious in cutaneous disorders; and Hammerin gives an instance in which these flowers, with those of verbascum, used as tea, cured an exanthematous disorder, which had resisted various other remedies tried during the course of three years.--Woodville's Med. Bot. p. 372. 304. AQUILEGIA vulgaris. COLUMBINE. The Leaves, Flowers, and Seeds.--It has been looked upon as aperient; and was formerly in great esteem among the common people for throwing out the small-pox and measles. A distilled water, medicated vinegar, and conserve, were prepared from the flowers; but they have long given place to medicines of greater efficacy. 305. ARISTOLOCHIA longa. LONG BIRTHWORT. The Roots.--This is a tuberous root, sometimes about the size of the finger, sometimes as thick as a man's arm: great virtues used to be ascribed to this plant as a specific in most uterine obstructions and gout: the outside is of a brownish colour; the inside yellowish. 306. ARTEMISIA vulgaris. MUGWORT. The leaves.--These have a light aromatic smell, and an herbaceous bitterish taste. They are principally celebrated as uterine and anti-hysteric: an infusion of them is sometimes drunk, either alone or in conjunction with other substances, in suppressions of immoderate fluxes. This medicine is certainly a very mild one, and considerably less hot than most others to which these virtues are attributed. 307. ASCLEPIAS Vincetoxium. SWALLOW WORT. The Root.--This root is esteemed sudorific, diuretic, and emmenagogue, and frequently employed by the French and German physicians as an alexipharmic, sometimes as a succedaneum to contrayerva; whence it has received the name of Contrayerva Germanorum. Among us it is rarely made use of.