32 GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS. 
employed for the same purposes. It shares with 
them the property of diminishing the sensibility 
of the nerve exposed by a carious tooth, when 
repeatedly applied. The essence, consisting of 
the volatile oil dissolved in alcohol or proof spirit, 
is antispasmodic and diaphoretic, and may be 
applied in all cases where warm or cordial stimu- 
lants are indicated. A tincture, formed by digest- 
ing the leaves in spirit, possesses the astringency 
as well as warmth of the plant, and has been use- 
fully employed in diarrhea. 
A respectable physician of Boston informs me, 
that he has in various instances found the infu- 
sion of this plant very effectual in promoting the 
mammary secretion, when deficient ; and even in 
restoring that important function after it had been 
for some time suspended. Whether the medi- 
cine has any specific influence of this sort, inde- 
pendent of the general state of the patient’s health, 
I am not prepared to say. 
BOTANICAL REFERENCES. 
Gaultheria procumbens, Linn. Sp. pl.—Mucwavx, Flor. i. p. 
249,.—Pursn, i. 283.—Nutraut, Gen. i. 263. —ANDREWwS, Bol. 
Repository, t. 116.—Witx1p. rb. 123.—Vitis Idea Canadensis 
Pyrole folio, Tournerorr, Inst. 608.—Anonyma — 
arcuatis, CoLDEN, WVoveb, 98. 
