52 FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 
a 
are Rosie. The infusion is weaker. They 
me aed i in compound laxafives and cathar- 
+ t 
Septfoil or Turmentoil Root. ic 
= 
CB ie is Rego and found wild in 
as 
blackish color on the outside, and reddish 
within. 
The root has an austere, styptiog taste, pocoe : 
Pee with a mien. t kind of a matic flavo It 
e of t ogee eer and 1 
stance, in a dose — half a vesnit toa drachm 
at atime. 
Soe = 
F Rican Sorrel. 
“This herb is common and well known, grow-, 
ing in old eee ‘and cornfields, ‘throughout 
An infusion of the leaves is refrigerant, useful 
in all inflammatory habits, as well as in the 
scurvy rrel leaves, wrapped up and roasted, 
and applied to tumors, wens, biles, inflamma- 
&c. bring them to a head very quick. It 
I be found ae serviceable in all su ch 1 eases. 
