28% Erigeron heterophyllum. 
mended in gravelly and gouty affections.* I have been informed by 
Mr. Samuel Hazard, that his father, the late Ebenezer Hazard, of this 
city, was in the constant practice, for years before his death, of 
using the decoction of the plant, on the commencement of an at- 
tack of gout, and with much relief of its pains, as well as of some 
gravelly symptoms to which he was subject. It has been much 
praised for its remediate virtues in calculus ; and has been used in 
some few instances of dysury by Dr. Physick. He informed me that in 
a case of this kind, attended with great pain and irritability of the blad- 
der, the patient found much relief by taking decoctions of the plantfor 
a few weeks. Scabious has also been prescribed in cases of hydro- 
thorax combined with gout; in ascites, and in general dropsy ; and 
those who have given the medicine in these cases, report the most 
beneficial effects to have been produced. In a consultation letter 
from the late Dr. Wistar to Dr. Eberle, put into my hands by the 
latter gentleman, it appears that the doctor recommended the Sca- 
bious in the case of the late Judge Yates, of Lancaster, who was 
affected with gout and general dropsy, attended with distressing 
pain in the bowels, and so disordered a state of the stomach, that 
the squill could not be administered ; yet it was necessary to give 
some active diuretic. “I once attended a gentleman,” says Dr. 
Wistar, “ who suffered with gout and hydrothorax ; the squill pro- 
duced great disturbance and pain of the stomach, and thus did 
* Loureio says it is commended for its emenagogue virtues, by the people of 
Cochinchina, who call it cay con hat. 
