©abinet apeanety: Jeff. col - 307 —igure ae: the plant, 
No. 1 
Indigenous ; rootacrid, deniers si used boiled 
in milk, to relieve oppression in Qisioenidiks ‘be use- 
ful; is a common domestic remedy; the acridity of the root. 
__ renders it powerfully rubifacient, applied bruised to the — 
skin. By maceration and frequent ablution, : a sat 
_ cule ésibies arrow-root. af 
; obi: 8 na , bitte “ - aan, , 
ntly purgative and emetic; impaired by keeping; _ 
# ina peculiar acrid principle, not well understood. ; 
"Yafusion i im water takes up the properties ; coction dissi- 
pates them. 
MEDICAL Prorentizs anp Uses,» Errhine,. Cullen saYs, the 
best; grs. ijj to v, snuffed up the nose every night, till the 
effect is produced. 
eine Prev. Pulvis Asari compositus. BE. D. 
—Asarum Canapensre. Radix. The root of 
_.. Canada snake-root, or ld i. ginger. Phar. 
Sts oo Ae Be 
Alcohol and water extract its virtues. © 
An indigenous aromatic congener of No. 90. For 
, —- see a r. es Fasten a Veg Mat. 
Dose, 38s of the oeeninad 
by f3xij of boiling water, with 2 
used as Virginia snake-root is. 
No. EE ONE Milk-weed; silk w 
_ Pentandria Digynia, Linv. Contorle, Juss. — 
ea ‘Three | species, indigenous— ne 
Ly Aselepias inearnata. Flesh-coloured Asc 
_— Cabinet s specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 111— 
No, 12 
2. Asclepias Syriaca. Common silk-weed; ul 
~ roots. wer 
ee cS psec Xo wtf of the pint, 
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