sikenards are popular medical plants th 
ted a Tier are healing, pectoral, sudorific, st 
price cordial, depurative, &c. The roots and berries 
cient. 
The roots bruised or chewed, or in poultice, are used for 
of wounds and ulcers by the Indians. F omentations and 
_ are useful for cutaneous affections, erysipelas and rin, 
~ infusion or decoction of the same are efficient substi 
of sarsaparilla, and even more powerful i in all diseases of the 
syphilitic complaints, chronic rheumatism, local pains, iaseabes we 
Asa pectoral, both roots and berries may be used i i 
decoctions, &c. and have been found useful in cough: r 
cachexica, languor, pains in the breast, &c. T' 
nard is recommended for the gout, and the juice « 
the earach and deafness. 
joe * 
SpLeENwort. Asplenium Trichomanes. The herb. 
This is a small plant, six or eight inches high ; leaves 
numerous and pinnated, similar to brake ; the ribs are bl 
leaflets i in pairs, gradually di ng towards | 
in bunches in low woods, near. moist mea 
Its leaves are pectoral, aperient and di 
tions of the viscera, promote expectoration, 
the kidneys, allay pains in the urina! pas 
off sand and gravel. It is said this b herb 
Seuuu. Scilla Maritima, The root, called sea onion. 
The squill is a errennial, bulbous rool | plant, which grows 
wild hg > sandy. pe of Spain, Fecaeat he Levant, | The 
best sea onions ought to be sound, fresh, “ee 
‘juice; they are nauseous, bitter, and if muck 
as to ulcerate the skin. It is more commonly met with i in 
in the -form of dried acl ee abate be brittle, 
t marked with lines, and when ¢ 1ewe “re el | 
st very bitter. It becomes inert by long d ng or expo: 
ill is a powerful stimulant, promoting es 
ur and if the patient be kept warm, @ porters pecemape oe 
ns of res 
3 a, = ae paae i a greatly extolled for its 
in| ropsical omellingh: and in in flammations 0 of the kidneys, 
3 ill be taken in a large dose it operates as an emetic, a 
abe cases it produces even strangury, bloody urine, inflamma 
‘tion of the geet In smaller doses, however, it gee an. cet aa 
expectorant, and diuretic, and is peculiarly serviceable in phlegmatic — 
s, and where the lungs are oppressed with yiscid matter. 
The dose of squill is one or two grains, 
and the most commodious form js that of pi When 
eee oxymel, it affords an useful medieinein: 
