200 3 Lobelia inflata. 
ted tincture. may be given to an adult, to the extent of one, rarely 
two table spoonfuls every three hours ; it is proper however to com- 
mence by a pap or tea-spoonful, and increase the dose. Ten drops 
of this tincture will be a sufficient dose for a child under twelve 
months ; and over one, and under three years, from twenty to forty 
or fifty drops, as the circumstances may require, or the patient may 
seem to bear. A child of five years will bear eighty or ninety 
drops, without any distressing effect. If given in cases of croup, it 
will, perhaps, be necessary to use larger doses than these. I cannot 
conclude this article, without earnestly calling the attention of the 
physicians of our country to the plant under consideration. It is 
common every where in the United States, and easily recognised or 
identified. 
TABLE XVI. 
Fig. 4. Isa representation of the lower portion ‘of Lobelia inflata, 
of the natural size, having about three hers of the 
stem near the root, cut off. 
2.18 the upper portion of the same plant, severed from fig. 4, 
at the asterisk. — | 
