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ferior to the Peruvian bark as a means of cure in 
such cases. Among the number of cures by this 
‘medicine, was that of his own case. He obsery- 
ed that in its recent state it sometimes disagreed 
with the stomach and bowels, but that this ten- 
dency in the article was corrected by age. He 
recommends the bark as being in tie best state 
after it has been dried a year. — ; 
Other medical men have employed the bark 
of this tree with advantage in intermittents, and 
also in continued fevers of the typhoid type. Its 
tonic operation in these cases appears very analo- 
gous to that of the Peruvian hark. 
- Lhaye employed the tincture of Cornus flori- 
i as a stomachic in-various instances of loss of 
appetite and indigestion. The report of those 
who have taken it has perhaps been as frequently 
in fayour of its effects, as of gentian, columbo, and 
the other imported tonics of the shops, though 
perhaps it is somewhat ‘more liable to offend the 
stomach in large doses. In the Southern States 
adecoction of the buds and twigs has been thought 
to agree better with weak stomachs, thin the oth- 
er preparations. 
Some other species of this family resemble the 
present tree in the bitterness and tonic power of 
their bark, particularly the Cornus eircinate and 
C. sericea. : 
