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ach and yomiting in consequence. Whether 
this effect was owing to a peculiar quality of the 
leaves, or merely to the large amount of a crude, 
: resinous substance taken into the stomach at 
once, admits of some doubt. At any rate, if the 
plant be of a deleterious nature, the quantity 
requisite to produce ill consequences is greater 
than any person will probably be in much dan- 
ger of taking at a time. . 
PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM, 
“Dr Bureox;, in the Medical Recorder; gives 
the following account of the medical operation of 
this plant. “The powdered root,” says he} “ig 
extensively employed as a cathartic in bilious 
complaints, and I am persuaded with as much 
success as jalap. I have often’ prescribed it, 
combined with calomel in the~ proportion of 
twenty grains of the former to eight or ten of the 
latter, and have uniformly been pleased with its 
effects on my patients. In this dose it is ex- 
tremely prompt and efficacious. My experience 
enables me to state, that it is more drastic than 
jalap, and of course occasions more ‘active 
catharsis, more severe griping, and makes a 
