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tons, hysterics, ‘It is chiefly beneficial in 
and recent éases of suppressions, given as a sweetened 
__ as a bath or fomentation. | Tt promotes expectoration in the 
~ ing cough, it alleviates spasms, pains in the hips, and the sp 
~ dic or dyspeptic symptoms of menstruations. _ It is also used in pale 
pitations, fevers, and gout. It is employed extensively for colds, 
colics of children, to remove obstruction, warm the stomach o- 
note perspiration. . 
‘Be — Paprerstyr. : Mentha Piperita. The herb. 
mbling that of pepper. They afford an essenti; 
aromatic qualities of the herb. a ms 
Peppermint is used as a stimulant and carminative, to obviate 
nausea or griping, or to relieve the symptoms resulting from flatu- 
lence. It is also an excellent stomachic, of great use in wind colics, _ 
cramps in the stomach, languors, and hysteric cases, and in vomiting. 
‘It is used under the forms of the watery infusion, the distilled wate 
and the essential oil. This last being disse 
‘of rectified spirits of wine, and colored w 
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essence of peppermint of the shop : a fasbione d ple , 
carminative, and when taken on sugar, imparts glowing taste, and 6. 
warmth, to the whole system. 
~ Peruvian Bark. Cinchona Officinalis. 
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shall give a more brief description than is commonly bestowed 
_ upon this universal medicine, because, with botanic physicians, it Is 
by no means an indispensable article, as it is with others. In this, — 
however, I would not be understood as depreciating the value of the 
bark, but merely as intimating that substitutes are found and 2 
in our own country, that answer all its purposes. es scnl 
- ‘Phere are three kinds of bark in commerce: VIZ. the common, 
(which is pale,) the yellow,and the red. T’he first is considered the 
genuine. : 
The tree affording this bark grows wild in the hilly parts of Peru. 
“The commoa pale bark is in the form of small quilled twigs, thin, 
covered with a rough brownish coat. Its taste is bitter and slightly 
astringent ; slightly aromatic, with some degree, of mustiness. 
"The yellow bark has only been introduced since the year 1790.— 
It is in flat pieces, externally smooth, internally ofa light cinnamon 
color; it has a taste incomparably more bitter than the common, 
with some astringency. ; a 
~The red is in large thick pieces, externally covered with a brown, 
ough coat; of a dark red color ; taste and ‘smell similar to that of 
e, but the taste rather stronger. —— 
avian bark acts powerfully as an astringent, tonic, and | intisep- 
yet these-principles will by no means explain all the ef 
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