WINTER GREEN, 23. 
Several other cases of dropsy are detailed in 
Dr. Somerville’s paper, in which the Pyrola was 
administered by himself and by other practioners 
with decided advantage. Dr. Satterly and Dr. 
Marcet are among those who have added their 
observations to the testimonies in its favour. Dr. 
Somerville found his patients to remark, that an 
agreeable sensation was perceived in the stomach 
soon after taking the Pyrola, and that this was 
followed in some instances by an extraordinary 
increase of appetite. He considers it as haying 
in this respect a great advantage over other diu- 
retics, none of which are agreeable to the stomach, 
and most of them yery offensive to it. He fur- 
ther states, that no circumstance had occurred 
within his own experience or information, to for- 
bid its use in any form, or to limit the dose. 
Dr. Wolf has given one yery satisfactory case 
of the utility of our plant in ascites. He also 
found it to alleviate altogether the ardor urine 
attendant on gonorrhea. = 
‘Such are the most important facts which to my 
knowledge have been published respecting the 
internal use of the Pyrola umbellata. I have 
administered this plant on various occasions, and — 
attended to its mode of operation. In a number 
of dropsical cases, when first given, it made a dis- 
