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the testimony of Dr. Benjamin Parker, of Massachusetts, from his 

 own observations during an extensive practice for many years in 

 Virginia. From the successful employment of the White-root for 

 tvv^enty-five years, this respectable physician has imbibed such con- 

 fidence, that he extols it as possessing the peculiar and almost spe- 

 cific quality of acting on the organs of respiration, powerfully pro- 

 moting suppressed expectoration, and thereby relieving the breathing 

 of pleuritic patients in the most advanced stage of the disease ; and 

 in pneumonic fevers, recent colds, catarrhs, and diseases of the chest 

 in general, this remedy has in his hands proved equally efficacious. 

 He directs it to be given in the form of strong infusion, a tea-cupful 

 every two or three hours. By many families in this country this 

 root has long been esteemed as a domestic medicine, resorted to for 

 the relief of pains of the stomach, from ilatnlency and indigestion ; 

 hence the vulgar name of Wind-root, by which it is known in some 

 parts of the country ; but from its color it is generally called White- 

 root, It is said that by a perseverance for several weeks in the use 

 of about one drachm of the powdered root every day, the lost tone 

 of the stomach and digestive powers has been restored. 



