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“4, In endeavouring to reduce the dried bark to powder, I 
found it broke into small fibres, so that little powder was obtained 
from it. Upon toasting it a little over a slow fire, it was pulverised 
without difficulty. ‘The powder was strongly impregnated with a 
bitter taste.” | 
MEDICAL PROPERTIES. 
The Tulip-tree belongs, as has been noticed at the head of 
this article, to Jussieu’s natural family of Magnoliz; and with the 
magnolias, it is arranged under Linnzus’s natural order, Coadu- 
nate. We may therefore expect to find a similarity in the medical 
virtues of the Tulip-tree and the different species of Magnolia, par- 
ticularly the M. glauca. This i is the case. The bark of the Tulip- 
tree is considerably stimulant ; yet its een do not entitle it to 
a place under the head of stimulants. It is more properly consider- 
ed as.a tonic, and for its roborant ie T notice it here. It some- 
times acts as a sudorific, and hence its usefulness in chronic rheu- 
matism. Its powerful diaphoretic effects are certainly produced by 
its stimulant power ; and therefore it is absolutely inadmissible, as a 
medicine in acute rheumatism. Those who employ it in the coun- 
try will do well to bear this in mind. “Like most diaphoretic medi- 
cines, it acts occasionally as a diuretic ; but though I think it neces- 
sary to mention this circumstance here, it is not intended to intimate. 
