t grounds throughout the United. 
joms yellow as a man’s leg, knotty and spongy, 
of a yellow color outside, and white within. - ' 
The root is emollient, demulcent, cooling, and is good in uterine 
juxe _ They are applied externally to scrofulous 
‘ill pain, and promote suppuration. For gleets and — 
ites, take the expressed juice of this root, and to every pint of it, 
add half a pint of port wine, and four ounces of sugar. Of this the 
- patient may take a large tea cupful four times a day. 
The root roasted in ashes, and applied to wounds from bruises, 
‘Bails, &c. is very good to draw out substances, and allay inflamma- 
_ tion. A poultice of this root, cohush root, and slippery elm bark, 
of erized, and mixed together with cold water, will discuss white 
it should be changed three times a day; giving the pa- 
it the same time, internal cleansing remedies. 
Liquorice. Glycyrrhiza Glabra. _The root and extract. 
-Leatuerwoop. Dirca Palustris. The bark, berries, and root. — 
' Also’ moosewood, rope bark, leatherbush, &c. It grows in swamps, 
and is well known from its tough bark. The bark has a peculiar 
nauseous smell. The decoction and extract are bitter, but not acri- 
” It is emetic, cathartic, epispastic, expectorant, &c. and the berries 
are narcotic. The fresh root and bark in substance, at the dose of 
five to ten grains, produce vomiting, with a sense of heat in the sto- 
mach, and sometimes acts as a cathartic also. They are an active 
and dangerous medicine, to which less acrimonious substances ought 
to be Paes Applied to the skin they produce blisters in thirty 
hours. ‘ berries produce nausea, giddiness, stupor, sc. like 
other narcotics. It it expentovaut and sedoeiGc:tarvery-samall doses. 
