“MEDICAL PROPERTIES. 
~ Wild senna ‘is now. well known to be a valuable cathartic. of 
the milder class. It is little, if at all inferior, to the senna of the 
shops ;* and is doubtless one of the most: ‘important of our indige- 
nous medicines. Professor Hewson of Philadelphia, informed mie 
that he had used it occasionally, and with the same good eh 
> it appears by the mossuasie of Mon. Hippolite Nectoux, that botanists and writers 
on . the Matra Moa lic ae sas bene-miatbon in supposing the true senna of the 
senna, seh salind ¥ in de siege fact, that to senna, i " whiekt ‘had al : ys . 
considered. as the trne senna, is in reality a weed, with mpi the real-senna is. ins. 
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Mr, Nectoux informs us that his first. hoch den landing i in tg was pat senna. 
The ‘commonly. ‘received name of Alexandrian Senna, led him to the expectation of 
finding it in the vi ini y of the city whence the drug takes its name. He did not, how- 
ever, find it, after a considerable search, either at Alexandria or at Rosetta, Damietta, or 
Cairo. | Hp informs us that not a stalk of senna grows s in the Deltas and that. the _name 
a rs fe, Seer aul a : 
* The only two copies a this saplendid work I believe, Which ey come to this country, were presented 
by Mr. Michaus, of Paris; the one to Dr. Hosack, and the other to myself. 
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