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The Rattle-Snake RooT Plant* 



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Small Plant, Native cf America^ with weak 

 Stalks, little Leaves, and white Flowerss It 

 grows a Foot high. The Stalks are numerous, 

 weak, and round, few of them Hand' quite up- 

 right, fome generally lie upon the Ground. The 

 Leaves ftand irregularly : They are oblong and- 

 fomewhat broad, and of a pale Green. The 

 Flowers are little and white : They ftand in a 

 Kind of loofe Spikes, at the Tops of the Stalks, 

 and perfeftly refemble thofe of the commont Plant 

 we call Milkwort, of which it is indeed a Kind : 

 The whole Plant has very much the Alpect of the 

 taller Kind of our Englifi Milkwort. The Root 

 is of a lingular form : It is long, irregular, (len- 

 der, and divided into many Parts, and thefe have 

 on each Side, a Kind of membranous Margin 

 hanging from them, which makes it diftin6t in its 

 Appearance, from all the other Roots ufed in the 

 Shops. 



We owe the Knowledge of this Medicine, ori- 

 ginally to the Indiaiis : They give it as a Remedy 

 againfl the Poifon of the Rattle-Snake, but it has 

 been extolled, as poflefllng great Virtues. Dr 



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and we received 



zies, and all other Difeafes where the Blood was 

 fizey, it was faid to diffolve this dangerous Tex- 

 ture, better than all other known Medicines, but 

 Experience does not feem to have warranted alto- 

 gether thefe Efteds, for it is at prefent neglefted, 

 after a great many and very fair Trials. 



When this Remedy was difcover 

 Root of a Kind of Polygola, which Difcovery 

 owing to the Gentkman who brouo;ht 



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