Observations on pulmonary consumption, or, An essay on the Lichen Islandicus, considered both as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / by J.B. Regnault, M.D.

  • Huguenin, Moses, 1756-1819.
Date:
1802
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    saw it in the environs of Paris. Mailer says he found it on the whole chain of the Alps. StoU noticed great quantities in Hungary. Gilibert asserts, that Lithuania produces a considerable quantity of it, which must undoubtedly be on the Crapack Mountains. Dillenius says that it grows on the Com- mons in the vicinity of London ; on the high grounds near Cambridge; and at Stieperstone in Shropshire Ray tells us, that it was foun(i by a Botanist o.n the mountaifis in Wales. Mr. Newberry saw it upon the Rocks at Dartmoor in Devonshire. It has been also observed on the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh; on several other mountains of Scotland ; and likewise in the low lands. Sibbaldus found it in Stroma, one o£ the Hebrides. Oeder says, that it has been met with in the province of Dronthein in Norway. Fabricius observed it on the rocks which border on the Categat. The mountains of Hartz in Thuringia (in the Electorate of Saxony) furnish it in abun- dance; but the places where it grows in greatest