or COMMON HORSE-CHESTNUT. See ASCULUS, BOTANY Index.—It may be here added, that from several experiments in the French Memoires d'Agriculture, it appears that the fruit of the horse-chestnut affords a wholesome nourishment for cattle, and may even be employed with success for fattening them. It is said to render the tallow of those fattened with it particularly firm. The milk yielded by cows fed upon it, is also said to be thicker and richer than that produced from any other kind of food.—The fruit of this tree has been likewise used as food for sheep and poultry, and as soap for washing. It was much employed in powder as a sternutatory by an itinerant occultist, and has been recommended by some others in certain states of ophthalmia, headache, &c. in which eruptions are indicated. Its effects as a sternutatory may also be obtained by using it under the form of infusion or decoction drawn up into the nostrils. And it is entirely with a view to its erthine power that it is now introduced into the pharmacopoeia of the Edinburgh college. lege. But besides this, the bark has also been represented by some as a cure for intermittent fevers; and it is probably with this intention that this part of the hippocastanum is introduced as an official article in the Pharmacopoeia Rofica.