88 ARISTOLOCHIA SERPENTARIA. 
the paroxysm, and from his account, not without 
advantage. Asa general rule, he says, that in 
all cases, where it is expedient to combine wine 
with bark, the effect will be much increased by 
adding Serpentaria, ‘The correctness of this 
observation has been fully confirmed by subse- 
quent experience, and it is now very much the 
practice to unite the two articles in the low states 
of disease.” 
Dr. Chapman farther states, that though it is 
doubtful whether the Serpentaria, by itself, will 
cure ague and fever, it is certainly a powerful 
assistant to bark, not only in increasing its effi: 
eacy, but, what is of great consequence, in 
enabling the stomach to retain the medicine. 
To remittent fever he thinks this medicine 
better adapted. It has here, in many cases, an 
indisputable superiority over bark, inasmuch as 
it is rarely offensive to the stomach, and may be 
given without injury, in those obscure states of 
the disease, where the remission is not readily 
discernible. He prefers, in these cases, a com- 
bination of bark, snakeroot, and soda. 
Snakeroot, he informs us, is much resorted to 
as a popular remedy in the management of the 
secondary stages of pleurisy. After bleeding, it 
is the ordinary practice, in many parts of our 
