60 FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 
gle flower at the end of the stem, one inch long, 
‘in almost every part of the United States. They 
all possess he same properties, and have a strik- 
ing resemblan 
The root san bulb of the leaves are emetic, 
mollient, suppurative, and anti-scrofulous when 
, and. nutritive when dry. The dose fo ra 
one is twenty-five grains of the fresh root, 
‘forty of the recent dried. root. But its seeaua 
value consists in its being a remedy for the sero 
ula. The ee roots and leaves stewed in mi k, 
and applied to the s 
ma la 
=e nfusion is t bit deal 4diiee saite. time, 
still a cure is effected. 
Seneca Snakeroot. 
= jae ds in nearly” all t he United 
sites Pare in Virginia and eonayive. 
s fi troduced” in Virginia asa 
of the bife* of the rattle- 
; hould be given in decoction. 
it rs ounce of the root of seneca, simmered 
a close Mast in half a pint of water till it is 
sd to > aged will be as strong, 
Ehied A tea-spoonfal o be 
v Sty hour or half hour, as fi e urgeney 
