tale as cutitoedion and serviceable 
Fongs 
‘ Beste aan The bark and berries 
It grows in ‘the form of a bramble, from ¢ one to six high, 
the sides of roads and hedges; bears clusters of olga eg 
which are ripe at the time of frost, but stay on through the winter; 
‘they are a pleasant sharp acid, and are often made use of in Bie 
serves, as a jam, which is very grat in acute diseases. _ : 
of the root, boiled. boars wrece nto beer; has cured the ja 
pleasant detergent bitter. The leaves and bi 
beneficial in putrid fevers, bilious 1 
dysentery, &c. 
‘Barney.’ Pearl (or hulled) barley. 
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_ Pearl barley is the seed stripped of its husk. In diseases of ‘eae 
kidneys and the breast, as well asin that state of the body when 
is said to abound in acrimonious 8, 
grain, sufficiently strong, and ac 
_ useful, As.a cooling and diluent 
tial service to febrile patients, and in all aon cases, 
pre al Sem geet mae 
ape ® iyi Cerifera Humilis: The bark of the: 
‘This shrub rises three or four feet in height, is scraggy, with 
‘many branches set full of long, smooth, green leaves; from the sides. 
of the branches grow small green berries, covered with a pale green 
tallow. It grows plentifully in the New England States, and in 
other parts. A tallow is obtained from the berries by boiling, ee 
as bayberry tallow. 
- The leaves and berries are warm carminatives, stomac 3 
menagogue, beneficial..in palsies, colic, hysterical complaints, pm go 
promote urine.. But the bark is chiefly used. Itj is eminently 
serviceable in scrofulous affections, for which it should be drank in 
decoction, and constantly applied to the tumor as a discutient poul- 
tice. This application will not be found inferior to any other,.or 
: all species of scrofulous swellings... The decoction of bayberry bark 
is a good remedy for jaundice, and is effectual in removing all ob- 
structions of the liver, spleen, kidneys, urinary passages. Ithasalso | 
_ been employed in dysentery, and dropsy. The bark, chewed, 
_ good sialagogue ; and when pulverized, forms a most powerful n 
ees, which may be used with great hess in many di 
the Bayberry is one the most valuable {medicinal 
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