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The leaves of SaA in are the officinal parts. Those of 

 our Cedars are used as equivalents with us, under the 

 name of Saving but thej are weaker than the European 

 Savin, and often fail as emmenagogue, because the doses 

 are regulated upon the European prescriptions. They 

 have all the properties of the Junipers in a higher and 

 even violent degree; they increase all the secretions, 

 but may produce hemorrhagy and abortion, acting chiefly 

 on the uterus. Pregnant women ought never to use 

 themj but they are very useful in dropsical complaints, 

 menstrual suppressions, also in rheumatism, gout, worms, 

 &:c. in powder, conserve, or tincture* None but expe- 

 rienced physicians ought to prescribe them. Farriers 

 use them frequently in diseases of horses. Externally* 

 the powdered leaves may be applied to warts, venereal 

 excrescences, ulcers, carious bones, psora, tinea, and 

 gangrenous sores, to heal them. The fresh leaves mixed 

 vrith lard and wax, form a good perpetual epipastic, 

 applied to a vesicated surface, keeping it open, and 

 changing the discharge from a serous to a puriform ap- 

 pearance. 



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No. 57. KALMIA LATIFOLIA. 



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Names. Broadleaf Kalmia. JFV. Grande Kalmie. 

 Vulgar. Laurel, Mountain Laurel, Rose Laurel, Cali- 

 cobush, Big Ivy, Spoonwood, Lambkill, Sheep-poison, 

 Wicke, &:c. 



Ciasaif. Nat. Ord. of Rhodoracea. Decandria mono- 

 gynia L. 



Genus Kalmia. Cal. five parted, corolla hypocrateri* 

 form, five lobed, with ten cavities, ten stamina, anthers 

 lodged in the cavities, one pistil, style, and stigma, cap- 

 sule five celled, many seeded. 



Sp. Kalmia latifotia* L. Leaves clustered, petiolate, 

 oval lanceolate, acute, entire: corymbs terminal, viscid, 



and pubescent. 



DESCRIPTION. A shrub, four to ten feet high. 

 Leaves evergreen, thick, coriacious, very smooth, lucid 



