The flowers of the camomile are tonic, slightly anodyne,
antispasmodic, and emetic.
They are _used externally_ as fomentations, in colic, faceache, and
tumours, and to unhealthy ulcers.
They are _used internally_ in the form of infusion, with carbonate of
soda, ginger, and other stomachic remedies, in dyspepsia, flatulent
colic, debility following dysentery and gout. Warm infusion of the
flowers acts as an emetic; and the powdered flowers are sometimes
combined with opium or kino, and given in intermittent fevers.
_Dose_, of the _powdered_ flowers, from ten grains to one drachm,
twice or thrice a day; of the _infusion_, from one to two ounces, as a
tonic, three times a day: and from six ounces to one pint as an
emetic; of the _extract_, from five to twenty grains.
[TO-MORROW, SHROUDED FOR A BED OF CLAY.]