90. Chap. 90.-Four Remedies Derived From The Hemerocalles.

CHAP. 90.—FOUR REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE HEMEROCALLES.

The hemerocalles[1] has a soft, pale green leaf, with an odo- riferous, bulbous root. This root, applied with honey to the abdomen, draws off the aqueous humours and all corrupt blood. The leaves of it are applied for defluxions of the eyes, and for pains in the mamillæ, after childbirth.

1. See c. 33 of this Book. The Pancratium maritimum, if that plant is identical with it, is but little used, but has a marked action, Fée says, upon the human frame.