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found that it produced an increased quickness of 
the pulse, drowsiness, flushing of the face and 
stiffness of the eyelids. Dr. Chalmers attributes 
to its too free use the cases of two ehildren, who 
died in conyulsions. Dr. Macbride informs us 
that its narcotic effects are seldom or never at- 
tended with danger, and that some physicians 
consider them an evidence of the favorable opera- 
tion of the medicine. The opinion that this effect 
is owing to the root of some deleterious plant — 
taken up with the Spigelia, seems to be void of 
foundation. ‘4 8 
As in most other perennial plants, the root of 
the Spigelia possesses a greater share of activity 
than the herb. Of this root ten grains may be 
given in powder to a child four years old, twenty 
to one which is seyen, and a drachm to an adult. 
If no inconyenience ensue, it may be repeated two 
or three times a day. If the infusion is prefer-. 
red, an ounce of the root may be infused in a pint 
of water, and half the quantity taken by an adult 
or one or two spoonfuls by a child. 
- BOTANICAL REFERENCES. 
Spigelia Marilandica, Lin. Sp. pl.—Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 
80.—Woopvitte, ii. t 105.—Watter, Flor. Car. 92.—M1- 
CHAUX, i, 147.—Pursn, i. 139.—Exuiorr, i. 236.—Lonicera 
