¢ of the West Indies, wade Sak America. 
ea negro named Quassia, who ic emiored ee 
tepide- 
8 a8 a secret remedy in the 1 
luassia is one a of the most intense, durable and pure bitters , 
fusion, tincture, or decoction, are almost equally bitter, and 
vish. It is an excellent tonic, antiseptic and febrifuge ; being 
t heating drugs, it is found very serviceable in exciting 
for food ; expelling flatulency ; assisting digestion ; an 
in removing costiveness when occasioned by weakness — 
It is very beneficial after fevers. 
y d in infusion, in proportion of three or four 
wood to twelve ounces of water, of which one or two ~ 
ful may be taken at a dose, and frequently repented 
Queen or Tue Meavow, Spirea Ulmaria. Vhs tock. 
_ Also called meadow sweet. 
This beautiful plant rises four feet high ; has smooth, ease 
. wali leaves long, spear-shaped, and opposite ; flowers purple. It 
grows in hedges, and on the sides of meadows’ throughout the Uni- — 
$ a most powerful diuretic. In suppressions of ting, 
ib used. with great benefit. It has freque 
es dropsy, boil eight ounces of the bruised roots in “ae 
quarts of water to two; and after the necessary evacuations, com- 
‘mence by giving a tea cupful of this decoction every two hours, 
_ Warm, increasing the dose as you can bear it, till the water is evacu- 
_ ated. Then brace up with tonics. 
~ is: other cases it may be taken less profusely, 
- Rarrvesnake Roor. The root. 
This name has been applied to several different plants, in various =~ 
parts of the United States; but that which I have known by that 
name, and intend here to designate, has three radical leaf stems the 
_ first year, of about six inches in height, with a broad three- 
rnered Jeaf to each ; the second byes a lary Seog stalk coe 
