ing pain of a supposed attack of the 
_ which, however, was caused by wind pent up in tl 
t is an excellent medicine ‘in pleurisy, and inflammations 
ae and brain, and is a sure meneayis in erysipelatous eM 
Cusess. as *Phe-teute: 
This is a warm, aromatic, balsamic Spice, imported from the East 
Indies. It is considerably used in the cure of clap, and will some- 
times su din checking it, in slight cases, when cop: &c. fa 
0 to be depended on. oi may be chew | 
a milk. 
Cutver’s Root. Callistachia Virginica. The root. 
This plant rises two or three feet high; has large leaves coming 
out at the joint, from four to seven in number, according to i 
a white tasseled blossom grows on the top of each br. 
as long as the finger. From a common stool pro d 
of pale yellow roots, about as large as knitting 
very bitter. A large handful of the roots made into a 
ient for a common dose. 
: to rouse: the patient to keep him from falling asleep uring opera- 
tion. — ‘Tt may be pulverized generally for a purge. | 
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Crosswort. Cruccata. The herb. 
Grows two feet high; leaves lance shaped, and are »pposite 
a other in the form acres ; flowers very conspic : el- 
low. Itis found plentifully in old upland pastures, a 
the country people Creoruae: as they have expe 
effects in curing colds and coughs. 
_A tea of thie herb i is an excellent expectorant, aad very beneficial 
mocha ss an — ; 
i atimaiieds Leontadon Soteacnia. The root and leaves: 2 
A. well known, indigaboual perrennial plant, growing in meadows: 
and pastures, on road sides, banks, &c. ; has many long deep ashed 
leaves, lying on the ground ; and several slender, hollow, Meio oo as 
_ foot stalks, each bearing at the top one large ‘yellow , Which 
able quality of expanding early in the | m0! 
Sie and stalk, any a ae 
