anything tinged or impregnated with absinthium or wormwood. Bartholin mentions a woman whose milk was become absinthiated, and rendered as bitter as gall, by the too liberal use of wormwood.

Vinum absinthites, or poculum absinthiatum, “wormwood wine,” is much spoke of among the ancients as a whole. Absinthium wholesome drink, and even an antidote against drunkenness; though some have charged it with being offensive to the head, and liable to cause fevers, cephalalgia, vomiting, uterine fluxes, &c. Ray also makes it a preventative of venery. According to the common opinion, it is made by infusing the leaves of the plant in wine; but, according to Fehr, it ought to be prepared by fermentation, in order to correct the crudities, and call forth a volatile salt; which last, however, does not exist in wormwood. Some prefer the distilled water; but whatever virtues wormwood possesses reside entirely in its essential oil.