CHELONE GLABRA. 
The leaves make a vermifuge, which is safe in common cases. 
It should be administered in infusion, continued for a time, and 
followed by a suitable purge. An ounce of the dried leaves is 
sufficient in most cases for children. 
“As I have discovered,” says Dr. Curtis of Ohio, “in the 
snakehead no tendency either to open or constipate the bowels, 
I call it a pure, neutral bitter. As bitterness is in its nature 
stimulant, it is of course deobstruent, and finally restorative. It 
should therefore be used freely as a general equalizer of the 
circulation and purifier of the blood.” 
The following formula is highly recommended :— 
Take of pulverized poplar-bark six pounds, golden seal, cloves, 
ginger, and prickly-ash bark, each a pound and a half, snake- 
head a pound, cayenne three quarters of a pound, and sugar 
seven pounds. Mix thoroughly and sift. If the prickly-ash is 
omitted, the quantity of cayenne may be somewhat increased. 
It is usual to add about one-twentieth part of cayenne to the 
tonic or restorative preparation. 
The above preparation is found to be one of the best medicines 
in use for restoring the tone of the digestive organs. It is an 
excellent remedy in jaundice, dyspepsia, worms, flatulency, 
piles, headache, giddiness, pains in the stomach and bowels, 
diarrhea, gravelly complaints, strangury, gonorrhea, fluor albus, 
heart-burn, rickets, mercurial salivation, consumption, and the 
whole train of chronic diseases, It is a laxative, and keeps the. 
bowels open, unless they are obstinately costive. Its use would 
be improper during the continuance of a violent febrile or in- 
_ flammatory affection, but as soon as the disease is subdued it 
