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rosive, was used for warts. Thatcher says it is the base 

 of Baivson^s biiters, a remedy for jaundice. From thirty 

 to eighty drops of the tincture in wine, twice a day, is a 

 good prophylacted for intermittents, marshy fevers, and 

 inward fevers. It is very bitter, increases the appetite 

 and tone of the stomach. But it is beneficial in many 

 other diseases of the liver and lungs, typhoid pneumo- 

 nia, hooping cough, torpor of the liver, hydrotliorax, 

 croup, amenorrhea, asthma, peripneumonia trachealis, 

 incipient consumption, ulcerous sorethroat, cynanche 

 trachealis, dysentery, inflammatory rheumatism, and 

 externally in ulcers, polypus of the nose, fleshy excre- 

 senses, and fungous tumors. 



Few medical plants unite so many useful properties ; 

 but it requires to be administered with skiuiil hands, 

 and may become dangerous in empirical hands. Dr. 

 Tully has investigated them very carefully : he says 

 that it unites all the beneficial effects of Squills, Seneka 

 root, Digitalis, Gua;facum, and Ammoniacum, without 

 their badT effects. 'In moderate doses, it excites the san- 

 guiferous and lymphatic systems. Snuffed in the nose 

 it excites sneezing. Applied externally to ulcers or dis- 

 eased skm, it promotes absorption and changes action. 

 In severe and protracted cynanche, pneumonia, pertysis, 

 phthisis, &c. when the inflammatory symptoms are part- 

 ly subdued, it acts as a tonic, expectorant, diaphoretic, 

 and sedative, lessening the pulse from 112 to 80. Tully 

 considers it as inestimable in these diseases, because it 

 invigorates and strengthens the powers of the system, 

 instead of weakening them. 



Externally, it is certainly a valuable escharotic ; 

 either m powder or as a wash, it has cured ill condition- 

 ed ulcers, with callous edges and ischorous discharges. 

 It removes fungous tumors and excresences, nay, even 

 sott pol;yT)us, by being used like snuff, and producing detu- 

 mescence. A host of physicians have recommended this 

 root, and none appears so well deserving of peculiar at- 

 tention. Many rely entirely upon it to cure the croup, 



to nfr? ""^ *^" ^^ i''^}''^ S'"^^"^ «f tJ^e powder so as 



cLbhiT^-T'"'"- ^* ^^^ ^"""ed acute rheumatism. 



S acthfTn? ^""^l although it must become dangerous 



actne inflammation, because it is always somewhat 



