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ESCULUS, L- Buckeye^ Horse chesnut. All our sp. 

 belong ta the sub G- Pavia^ and are equivalent. Their 

 roots are saponaceous and narcotic, used boiled instead 

 of Si)ap for woollens : the Indians stupifj and catch fish 

 with them. The wood is very wSoft and white, it cannot 

 burn ; it is made in the west into small tougli and white 

 chips for hats like Poplar in Europe : paper can be made 

 with the shavings : Indians make b;)wls and spoons with 

 it. Branches, leaves and nuts narcotic, with a nauseous 

 smel! : cattle eating them are poisoned, the symptoms 

 are a wry neck, fixed eyes, swelled body, constipation, 

 palsy, convulsiims and death : the remeily is oil poured 

 m the mouth and injected. Dr. Mac Dowell, of Dan- 

 ville, has tried the powder of the rind and found 10 

 grains in powder equal to 3 grains of opium. The pound- 

 ed nuts used in poultices, the root in diarrhea by In- 

 dians. Deserving investigation : possessing probably all 

 the uses of the Asiatic horse chesnut, E. 7iipoca6tan€a^ 

 which has an astringent tonic bark, containing JE^^a^/zne, 

 equal to willow bark in agues before the fits, typhus, 

 gangrene. The fruits give much starch, and may be 

 eaten after being deprived of the bitter narcotic princi- 

 ple : used also as sternutatory in ophthalmia and head 

 aches. 



ESOPON GLAUCUM, Raf. FL lud. Equivalent of 

 Chicorea. 



EUDISTEMON, Raf. Pepper grass. The Cochlearja 

 coTOnojnn of Schoepf, since united to man^irenera Bis- 

 cutella, Lepidmm, Senebura. Coronopus. Different from 

 all. Mild tonic, astringent,' diuretic, gives bad t^.te to 



milk of cows. 



EUP\TORIUM. Add, in small doses alterative, an- 

 tiscorbiaic and pectoral. £. perpuretnn, anti^v jji.iiitic, 

 Sciioepf. jE. cra^s'rfl ''un, Raf. Fl. lud. herben cJievreuU 

 of Louisiana, used for wounds. E. pilosum. E. rotundi- 



foHum and E. scabridum, bitter, stomachic, tonic and 



febrifuge, used for snake*- bites and as equiv. of E. per- 



foliatiim. The Eupatorine, the active principle, \% an 



alkali, in white powder, S(dub!e in alcohol and ether, 



peculiar taste, it burns in fire, and irivc.. sufplmtes. 



EtrPHORBlA. Add. the F.. iuihpru^, Mole plant or 

 i^purge Gapers. Milk drastic -Utliough the u....pe 



