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commonly employed in the form of an extract, 
which preparation is kept in our druggists’ shops. 
Ten or twelve grains of this extract operate gent- 
ly, and twenty or thirty grains with considerable 
activity on the bowels. It has been used for 
many years in this town by the most respectable 
practitioners. The late Dr. Warren thought 
highly of its efficacy, and employed it extensively 
in various complaints, especially in dysentery. 
During the revolutionary war, when foreign medi- 
cines were scarce, this extract was resorted to by 
many of the army surgeons, as a substitute for 
more expensive imported drogs.'' In dysentery it 
seems at one time to have — ired a sees of’ gaze 
cific reputation. | nl 
. From numerous trials which IT haye sti sith 
this: medicine, it appears to me: to: possess the 
qualities of an useful and innocent laxative. When 
fresh and: properly prepared, itiis very certain in 
its effect,'and leaves the bowels ina) good: state. 
In eases of habitual costiveness:it is'to be prefer- 
red. to more» stimulating eathartics, and many 
persons whose state of health has rendered them 
dependent on the use: of laxative medicines, have 
given this the — after -_ trial: ssi ‘a /yari- 
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