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CHAP. 74. (18.)—DILL: NINE REMEDIES.

Dill1 acts also as a carminative, allays gripings of the stomach, and arrests looseness of the bowels. The roots of this plant are applied topically in water, or else in wine, for defluxions of the eyes. The seed of it, if smelt at while boiling, will arrest hiccup; and, taken in water, it dispels indi- gestion. The ashes of it are a remedy for swellings of the uvula; but the plant itself weakens the eyesight and the generative powers.

1 The Anethum graveolens of Linnæus: originally a native of the hot climates. Its properties are very similar to those of anise.

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