This section is from "The Domestic Encyclopaedia Vol2", by A. F. M. Willich. Amazon: The Domestic Encyclopaedia.
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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