82 SAUGUINARIA CANADENSIS. 
country, some physicians relying wholly on this 
remedy for the cure of croup.” 
Dr. Macbride, of Charleston, 8. C. who has 
contributed many judicious remarks on the medi- 
cinal properties of plants, to Mr. Elliott’s excel- 
lent Botany of the Southern States; informs me,* 
that he has found the Blood root useful in Hy- 
drothorax, given in doses of sixty drops, ter de die, 
and increased until nausea followed each dose. 
In a week or two the good effect was evident, the 
pulse being rendered slow and regular, and the 
respiration much improved. In the same letter 
he observes, “ In torpor of the liver, attended with 
colic and yellowness of the skin, a disease com- 
mon in this climate, I use the Puccoon with evi- 
dent advantage. We use it also in jaundice, but 
in this disease I do not trust exclusively to it. 1 
prefer the pill or powder (dose from two to five 
grains) and vinous infusion, to the spirituous tine- 
ture.”? 
The tincture of Sanguinaria may be made by 
digesting an ounce of the powdered root in eight 
ounces of diluted alcohol. ‘This preparation pos- 
sesses all the bitterness, but less of the nauseat- 
ing quality, than the infusion. In the dose ofa 
small teaspoonful, it is used by many practitioners 
* Letter dated December, 1816. 
