348 NOTES TO THE 



I announce the fact merely to encourage pliy- 

 sicians to avail themselves of these remedies, when 

 the indication requires the invigorating of the ner- 

 vous force, and the powerful excitement of the 

 whole system of vessels. 



They are administered in form of powder, 

 the eighth part of a grain in sugar, two or three 

 times a day, augmenting the dose to two grains, 

 administered three or four times a day. If the pa- 

 tient, after commencing their use, feels a degree of 

 cardialgia, or ratiier, a heat in the stomach, it will 

 then be necessary to lessen the dose. The botan- 

 ical characters of these two plants are the follow- 

 ing. Rhus radicans Linn, class. pentand,ord. tri- 

 gyn.ffuliis ternatiSffoliolispetiolatis ovatis nudis 

 integerrimis, caide radicante. Jlhus Toxicoden- 

 dron Linn, class, et ord, praeced,, fdtiis ternatis, 

 folcolis jjetiolatis angulatis jjuhescentibus, caute ra- 

 dicante. 



(J 13) See §§ LXXXVII, LXXXVIII, and 

 LXXXIX. 



(^i-ii) See the note no. 15, Lecture III. 



(215) See § CXX. 



(^16) See § CXIX. 



(217) See § CXXVII. 



(2iy) Dr. Heberden says, see llosenstein, Tra- 

 ite des Maladies^ des enfans, etc. p. 319, that a 

 man seized with violent pain of the stomach, nau- 

 sea, vomiting and constipation, lost entirely his ap- 

 petite and sleep, and soon became emaciated, and 

 was lio longer able to walk. The hardened stom- 



