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sarcosis, scrofula, goitres, tumors and swellings* Cori-' 

 tains Soda and Iodine. 



SALIX, L. Willow. Valuable prolific genus, 45 



native sp. Twigs used for baskets, wood soft white for 



chip hats. Bark of all bitter astringent, febrifuge and 



antiseptic. Eq. of Cinchona in many cases, contains 



tannin, gluten and salicine similar to Quinine, 3 doses 



-of 6 grains of Salicine have cured agues, S. alba, 



latifolia, fragillis, helix, caprea, &c. chiefly used in 



Europe. Schoepf mentions the yellow and swamp 



willows used with us, roots and bark in bitters. Dose 



of powders k to 1 ounce. Rose Willow much used by 



empirics for fluoralbus, menorhea, cutaneous eruptions 



and agues, in tea. The seed wool of some sp. may be 

 spun. *^ •' 



SALSOLA, L. Barilla. All the sp. produce Barilla 

 or crude Soda: cult, in Spain and Sicily for it. Stimu- 

 lant, antacid, diuretic, &c. 



SALVIA, L. Sage. Seveval s^i. S. lyrata, daytoni, 

 ■^exicana, 4-c. called Cancerweed, fresh leaves used to 

 dispel warts, tumors, said to have cured Cancers. S. 

 officinahs cult, grateful subtonic, nervine, uterine, sto- 

 machic, useful in languor, convalescence, aphthas, soft 

 gums, to dispel milk, &c. Sagetea chiefly used, leaves 

 also m cookerv. 



SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS, L. Black Elder. Hoot 



and inner bark acrid purgative, berries laxative, baneful 

 to birds and fowls: acid, afford Wine, Alcohol and Oil. 

 Shade deemed baneful, leaves being subnarcotic, said to 

 cure the rot of sheep, laxative, nauseous, a cooling oint- 

 ment made with them, poison for insects and mice. 

 Bark dyes black, boiled and applied to cheeks cure 

 toothache, in small doses diuretic deobstruent, useful 

 m obstinate glandular obstruction and dropsies. Rob 

 of berries aperient, diuretic and diaphoretic, used for 

 coughs and costiveness. Young leaf buds drastic and 

 unsafe. But Elder flowers anodyne, pectoral, sudorific, 

 pellent, emollient, useful in erysipelas, fevers, rheum- 

 atism, gout, exanthems, &c. in decoction, lotion, cata- 

 plasms. Also, in pleurisy, chronic cou^h, eruptions and 

 bruisos. They give a fine Savor to vinegar and wine. 



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