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other complaints were benefitted by it, such as 
acute rheumatism and jaundice. | 
Professor Ives of New Haven* considers the 
Blood root as a remedy of importance in many dis- 
eases, particularly of the lungs and liver. He ob- 
serves, that in typhoid pneumonia, “in plethoric 
constitutions, when respiration is very difficult, 
the cheeks and hands become livid, the pulse full - 
soft, vibrating and easily compressed,—the Blood 
root has done more to obviate the symptoms and 
remove the disease,” than any remedy which he 
has used. In such cases, he observes, “ the dose 
must be large in proportion to the violence of the 
disease, and often repeated, until it excites. vomit- 
ing, or relieves the symptoms.’ He infuses from 
a scraple to half a drachm of the powdered. root 
in halfa gill of hot water, and gives one or two tea- 
spoonfuls every half hour, in urgent cases, until 
the effect is produced. This treatment has often 
removed the symptoms in a few hours. 
Dr. Ives thinks highly of its use in: oRienany 
in phthisis, and particularly in hooping cough, 
He also states, that given in large doses, sufficient 
to produce full vomiting, it often removes the 
Croup, if administered in the first stages. It has 
been given, he remarks, “for many years in the 
* Letter dated Noyember 5, 1816, 
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