SMALL MAGNOLIA. 7A 
powers, it is probably of a secondary order, though 
from the additional properties which it possesses 
of a warm stimulant and diaphoretic is found use- 
ful in certain disorders. Chronic rheumatism is 
one of the diseases in which it exhibits most effi- 
cacy. Not only the bark, but the seeds and cones 
which are strongly imbued with the sensible qual- 
ities of the tree, are employed in tincture with 
very good success in this disease. 
In intermittent and remittent fevers the Mag- 
nolia is one of the-many tonics which haye been 
resorted to for cure by the inhabitants of the 
marshy countries where they prevail. Sufficient 
testimony has been given in favour of the bark of 
this tree, to warrant a belief that it is fully ade- 
quate to the removal of fever and ague, when ad- 
ministered like the Cinchona, in liberal quantities 
between the paroxysms. In the more continuous 
forms of fever of the typhoid type, it has also re- 
ceived the commendations of physicians, 
Several other species of Magnolia resemble the 
present very closely in their sensible properties, . 
and as far as experiments haye been tried, they 
are similar in their medicinalveffects. In order 
to secure the whole efficacy residing in these. 
trees, a tincture should be made from the bark or 
cones while green or very recently dried, before 
their more yolatile parts have escaped. 
