304 | The Ufeful Family Herbal, 
The RaTTLe-SnNake Root PLanty, 
SENNEKKA. i 
Small Plant, Native of America, with weak 
Stalks, little Leaves, and white Flowers. It 
erows a Foot high. The Stalks are numerous, 
weak, and round, few of them ftand quite up- 
right, fome generally lie upon the Ground. The 
Leaves ftand irregularly: They are oblong and 
fomewhat broad, and of a pale Green. The 
Flowers are little and white: They ftand in a 
' . Kind of toofe Spikes, at the Tops of the Stalks, 
_and perfettly refemble thofe of the commont Plant 
we call Milkwort, of which it is indeed a Kind: 
The whole Plant has very much the Afpeét of the 
taller Kind of our Englifb Milkwort. “The Root 
is of a fingular form: It is long, irregular, flen- 
der, and divided into many Parts, and thefe have 
on each Side, a Kind of membranous Margin ae 
hanging from them, which makes it diftinét in its 
‘0 the Indians: They give it as a Remedy 
sae 
againit the Poifon of the Rattle-Snake, but ithas 
been extolled, as pofleffing great Virtues. Dr. 
Tennant brought it into England, and we received 
it as a powerful Remedy againft Pleurifies, Quins | 
_zies, and all other Difeafes where the Blood was 
fizey, it was faid to diffolve this dangerous Tex- 
ture, better than all other known Medicines, but 
ixperience does not feem to have warranted alto- 
oer * thefe Effects, for it is at prefent neglected, 
after a gr it many and very fair Trials. 
When this Remedy was difcovered, to be 
: 
Appearance, from all the other Roots ufed in the 4 
the Knowledge of this Medicine, ori- 
__ Root of a Kind of Polygola, which Difcovery was 
__ Owing tothe Gentleman who brought it over, and 
