< Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)

FLUELLIN, the Sharp-pointed, or Antirrhinum Elatine, L. is an indigenous annual plant, growing in corn-fields, and flowering from July to September.—The expressed juice of this plant has been highly recommended as an aperient, resolvent, and vulnerary; which properties an infusion of it possesses, though in an inferior degree.—An ointment is prepared from this juice, which was formerly in great repute as a remedy in leprous, scrophulous, and cancerous cases. It is at present employed only by empirics, both male and female, who pretend to cure with it cancers of every description.

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