gargle; and an ointment of the finely powdered galls 
success in the piles. 
GAMBOGE. Gambogia. A Gum Resin. 
A vegetable juice of a resinous nature, imported from ‘e 
Indies. The best sort is of a deep yellow salar, divested of dh sone 
and has very little taste. : 
It is a violent cathartic, operating both upwards and downwards. 
It has been used in dropsies, in small nauseating doses, as a water 
purge, and will often bring away large quantities of water. Gam- 
boge is also recommended to be taken for the tape worm, in doses” 
of fifteen grains, early in the morning ; and if the worm be not ex- 
pelled in two or three hours, this powerful dose is said to have been 
repeated with safety and success, even to the third time: From two 
to four grains is a common cathartic dose. Great precaution, how- 
ever, is requisite in the use of this precarious and active medicine. 
If too large a dose should be accidentally swallowed, the most effec- 
on antidote will be copious draughts of a solution of pearlashes in 
water, 
Garven Peony. Peonia Officinalis.. The roo — 
This plant has been introduced into many American gardens, 
from Europe. Rises two feet high; leaves cut into lobes, which 
are obloug and pinnated ; flowers large, and red. 
It is noted for its virtues in the cure of epilepsy, and fits in chil- 
dren. The roots must be dug in March, dried, pulverized and kept 
in bottles. Adults subject to the epilepsy, may take a desert spoon- 
_ ful of the powder four times a day, in a tea cupful of bittersweet tea, 
also apply the bruised roots to the soles of the feet when going to 
bed. 
Garuic. Allium Sativum. The root. 
Garlic is a perrennial, bulbous rooted plant, all the parts of which, 
especially the roots, have a strong, offensive, very penetrating and 
diffusive smell, and an acrimonious. taste. It is a powerful and 
diffusive stimulant ; hence in cold phlegmatic habits, catarrhous dis- 
orders of the breast, asthma, both pituitous and spasmodic, flatulent 
colics, hysterical and other diseases proceeding from laxity of ‘the 
solids, garlic is eminently serviceable, proving expectorant, diuretic, 
and if the patient be kept warm, sudorific. Sydenham extols it in, 
dropsy and. assures us also, that among all the substances which 
eccasion a derivation or revulsion from the head, no one operates 
more powerfully than garlic applied to the soles of the feet. 
Garlic may be-exhibited in substance, several cloves of it eut into. 
slices, may be swallowed without chewing, In this manner it has 
_ been successfully used in the cure of dropsy, and intermittent fevers = 
it may also be administered in the form of bolus or pills. Cotton mois- 
tened with the juice and introduced into the ear five or six times & 
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