SALERNO
Salicaria.
cent, and well adapted to resist the dissolution of the
crasis of the blood, which is so evident in these cases.
And by the same mucilaginous quality, it is equally
efficacious in the strangury and dysury; especially in
the latter, when arising from a venereal cause, because
the discharge of urine is then attended with the most
exquisite pain, from the ulceration about the neck of
the bladder and through the course of the urethra. I
have found it also a useful aliment for patients who labour
under the stone or gravel." The ancient chemists
appear to have entertained a very high opinion of the
orchis root, as appears from the secretis secretorum of
Raymund Lully, a work dated 1565.