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Its medical virtue resides in the essential oil, which is supposed to be a gentle corroborant and stimulant of the aromatic kind; and is recommended in nervous debilities, and various affections proceeding from a want of energy in the animal functions. Woodville's Med. Bot. p. 323. LAURUS nobilis. BAY-TREE. Leaves and Berries.
Woodville's publication on the cow-pox I notice an extraordinary fact. He says that the generality of his patients had pustules. It certainly appears extremely extraordinary that in all my cases there never was but one pustule, which appeared on a patient's elbow on the inoculated arm, and maturated. It appeared exactly like that on the incised part.
Joined to its stimulant qualities, it frequently, if taken in considerable quantity, opens the body, and increases the urinary discharge; and hence has been found useful in dropsical complaints. Woodville's Med. Bot. p. 404. SINAPIS alba. WHITE MUSTARD. Seeds. L. E. D. These have been recommended to be taken whole in cases of rheumatism and have been known to produce considerable relief.
The dose of dried leaves in powder is from one grain to three twice a-day; but if a liquid medicine be preferred, a dram of the dried leaves is to be infused for four hours in half a pint of boiling water, adding to the strained liquor an ounce of any spiritous water. Woodville's Med. Bot. p. 221. This is now become a very popular medicine, but if used incautiously is attended with danger.
In some constitutions sassafras, by its extreme fragrance, is said to produce headache: to deprive it of this effect, the decoction ought to be employed. Woodville's Mat. Med. p. 677. LEONTODON Taraxicum. N EBION. Root. L. The roots contain a bitter milky juice; they promise to be of use as asperient and detergent medicines; and have sometimes been directed in this intention with good success.
An infusion of the leaves is sometimes drunk as tea; and the essential oil of the berries may be given from one to five or six drops on sugar, or dissolved by means of mucilages, or in spirit of wine. Woodville's Med Bot. p. 680, 681. LAURUS Sassafras. SASSAFRAS-TREE. Bark.
He drew a long breath of astonishment when he saw her pass Colonel Woodville's door, and hurry forward now with footsteps that made no sound. The suspicion which had lain deep in his mind sprang at once into life. Keeping close to the wall, he followed swiftly and saw her disappear up a stairway. There he let the pursuit end and returned thoughtfully to his room. Dick was much troubled.
E. D. It is greatly extolled for its efficacy in removing obstructions of the lungs and other viscera. It has chiefly been employed in humoural asthmas. Mention is made of its successful use in scirrhous affections of the liver, jaundice, cachexies, and menstrual suppressions. Woodville's Med. Bot. p. 333. Similar Plants. Ballota nigra; B. alba. MELISSA officinalis. BALM. Herb.
Hastings had not the superb and more than regal pride of Warwick and Montagu; but this notice sensibly piqued and galled him. "My apartments as Lord Chamberlain, as one of the captain-generals in the king's army, given to the waiting-lady of Sir Anthony Woodville's wife! At whose orders, sir?"
During the Woodville's second business season, she was employed by a party of wealthy gentlemen, for a week, in going round the lake. She had descended the Richelieu to St. Johns, from which the party ran up to Montreal for a day, returning to the boat in the evening.
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