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the manifest effect of increasing the appetite and tone of the 
stomach. It was used in the same way as wine bitters. I can rea- 
dily believe that in this form it has done good, at least as a prophy- 
lactic, in those low marshy grounds of the southern states, where 
the inhabitants are. said to. use it to guard them against intermit- 
tents, and what the. country people call “inward fevers.” The 
dose of the saturated tincture of the root, is from 30 to 80 drops 
twice a day, increasing or decreasing the number as circumstances 
may require.* Ihave found 20 drops thrice a day, a good average 
dose. A decoction of the root has been recommended in the treat- 
ment of old and indolent ulcers; and the powdered root applied a 
few times in some cases of, ill-conditioned ulcers, with callous edges 
and an ichorous discharge, produced a healthy state of the sores.t+ 
I have also heard of the application of the powdered root to a-fun- 
gous tumor within the nostril, with the effect of producing detumes- 
cence, and bringing away frequently, small pieces of the fungus, 
which in the first instance impeded the progress of air through the 
nostril, and was supposed to be a polypus. . A decoction. of Puccoon 
has been employed with very good effect in that form of sore-throat, 
called by Dr. Darwin peripneumonia trachealis.t The medicine 
proved emetic. From this case Dr. Barton believes that “it pro- 
mises to be an useful medicine, particularly on the foundation of its 
emetic and expectorant effects, in cases of cynanche maligna, or 
ulcerous sore-throat, in cynanche trachealis, or hives, and other 
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* Thatcher’s Dispensatory, p. 202. + Downey’s Inaug. Diss. Phil. 18035. 
+ Barton’s Collections, part 2. p. 49. 
