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stimulants ; and to such the Pyrola may be useful. 
But of its efficacy in real cancer we require 
more evidence than is at present possessed, before 
we ascribe to it the power of controlling so for- 
midable a malady. 
Dr. Miller of Franklin informs me that he has 
used a decoction and cataplasm of this plant with 
apparent success in various chronic indurated 
swellings. It acts as a topical stimulant, and 
when long continued, not unfrequently vesicates. 
Tumours of long standing have in seyeral in- 
stances disappeared under its use. 
BOTANICAL REFERENCES. 
Pyrola umbellata, Lin. Sp. pl. Genin, Flora Sibirica. 
Roru, Flora Germanica.—Bot. Mag. t. 778.—Muicuaux, Flora 
Americana, i. 251.—Pyrola fruticans, PaARKINSON, Theatrum, 
509.—J. Bau, Hist. plant. iii. 536.—Chimaphila corymbosa, 
Poursh, i. 300.—NutTratx, Genera, i, 274. mass 
MEDICAL REFERENCES. - 
Mircuett, Inaugural Dissertation—SomMERvVILLE, Medico- 
Chirurgical Transactions, vol. v.—Woxr, Dissertatio Inauguralis. 
PLATE XXI. 
Fig. 1. Pyrola wmbellata. 
Fig. 2. Pistil of Pyrola rotundifolia. 
Fig. 3. Pistil of Pyrola secunda. 
Fig. 4. Pistil of Pyrola uniflora. 
Fig. 5. Pistil of Pyrola maculata. 
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