BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. _ 
_ age. A saturated solution of the oil in aleohol is applied, and a lite 
_. tle given in a spoonful of water; and an instantaneous stop takes — 
place to the bloody flow, : aan 
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Scroruna Prawn. Erythronium Flavum. The root and leaves. 
- ‘There are many varieties of this species of plant, which are 
. known by different names, in different parts, as dog violet, rattlesnake 
violet, lamb’s tongue, adder leaf, adder’s tongue, snow drop, snake- 
~The plant generally known by the above name, has a solid, pyra- 
- midal, bulbous root, deep in’ the ground, white inside, covered out- 
_ side with a brown, loose tunic, sheathing the base of the stem. Stem 
partly under ground, with two leaves, appearing radical because near 
the ground ; the whole. plant smooth and shining ; stem white below, 
eenish purple above, slender, from five to twelve inches long. On 
e first year of the growth, only one leaf is produced, and it is com- 
_ monly broader : the second year, two leaves, a little unequal in size, « 
from three to seven inches long, oval, lance-like, shining, smooth, 
_veinless, and with a single nerve, often spotted by large irregular ' 
- sa of a dull brown above, pale and unspotted below. A single 
wer at the end of the stem, one inch long, of a yellow color, some- 
_ times tinted with red, nodding. Some. variety of this species is 
_ found in every part of the United States. They all possess the same 
“pT ies, as well as a striking resemblance. 
_ ~The root and bulb of the leaves are emetic, emollient, suppurative, 
and antiscrofulous when fresh, nutritive when dry. The dose to 
vomit is twenty-five grains of the fresh root, or forty of the recent 
_ dried root. But its greatest value consists in its being a remedy for 
the serofula. This property it possesses is but lately discovered, but 
experience has established it in many instances. "The fresh roots 
as a poultice, healing them speedily ; or the fresh bruised leaves may 
be laid on, renewing them often. The infusion is to be drank at the 
game-time. | ; 
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~ Sevtt-cap. Sculletaria Gallericulata. The leaves. 
This is a native perrennial plant, rising about two feet high, 
growing on the banks of rivers and the borders of ponds; flowering 
n the months of July and August. Its stem is square and branched ; 
_Teaves heart-shaped, narrow-pointed, on short foot stalks, scalloped, 
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and opposite ; flowers blue, in pairs, on pedicles growing from the - 
axilla of the leaves, and pendulous. Scull-cap is bitter, and has a 
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of no botanical account, till the recent _ 
fic ‘antidote to the bite of a mad dog. 
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