40 FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 
or three weeks before delivery, and during the 
event, which make it so remarkably safe and 
easy with them. It is esteemed by some as a 
remedy in diarrhoea and piles. In some parts it 
is used ac and gout 
Peach. 
rs and leaves of the common peach 
excellent remedy for worms in chil- 
on. handful of the leaves and flowers, or 
leaves : e steeped, oc- 
tion given repeatedly in small doses, followed 
y a purge, which will usually bring the ver- 
a 1 Peach 1 ‘ randy, in pro ve 
a ounces to a quart, form a powerfu 
tonic in all cases of debilities, fever a sexe, 
and is very efficacious in curing the whites.— 
A table-spoonful of this preparation may be 
taken three or four times a day. 
a Pink. 
The common garden pink possesses consid- 
ae graie medicinal power. The flowers in decoc- 
are an praelient remedy for ares stools in 
a fine earminati 
: e and anodyne 
ta the bowels. 
Pipsisiway, or Prince’s Pine. 
_ This plant rises from four to six inches high, 
with a slender stalk, set thick with s straight, 
Oval, notched leaves. Flowers from three to 
