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or tincture; but less than the Oil, which is one of the 

 most efficient vegetable Styptics. This extract and a 

 syrup of the plant have been given usefully in dry 

 coughs, hemoptysis, and internal hemorrhages.- The 

 dose is from five to ten grains of the extract, often 

 repealed. 



As diuretic the infusion, decoction and tincture are 

 preferable and more active ; they have increased the 

 daily evacuation of urine from 24 to 67 ounces. A 

 pint or two of the former may be taken daily; they 

 agree well with the stomach, even when Squill and 

 Digitalis are intolerable : the dose of the tincture is 

 from two to four drachms daily; it is made by di- 

 gesting one ounce of the leaves in a pound of proof 

 Spirit. They are beneficial in all diseases of the 

 bladder and kidneys, attended with pain and irritation, 

 in which they give speedy relief. Also in all com- 

 pound cases of gravel and gout. In rheumatism they 

 have not been tried, although they are sudorific. In 

 all Dropsical disorders they act as diuretic. In chro- 

 nic Diarrhoea as astringent and have cured it without 

 auxiliary. 



They are even useful externally in wounds, also in 

 hard tumors and buboes, which a cataplasm of the 

 fresh plants dissolve as it were. But the most valu- 

 able property is the astringent and styptic power of 

 the Oil, which has saved many lives in parturition 

 and uterine hemorrhagy. A saturated solution of 

 the Oil in Alcohol is applied and a^ little given in a 



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