386 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
A ria xIV. 
Of the anthelmintic Virtues of the Root of the 
Indian Pink, being Part of a Letter from 
Dr Joun Linine Phyfician at Charles- 
town iz South Carolina, to Dr Robert 
Wuytt, Profefor of Medicine in the U- 
_ niverfity of Edinburgh. 
_—— HERE is a plant, commonly 
called, by the Carolinians, Indian 
Pink, which grows in this province, the root 
of which is ufed as. an anthelmintic, and was 
firft communicated to the Englifh by the In- 
dians. 
THE root is either given in powder, or an 
infufion is made of it in boiling water: but 
the powder is moft effectual. When I give 
the powder, I add fome rhubarb (a fufficient 
quantity to keep the belly open) and a little 
of -fome of the effential oils, as the o/. rut. 
Sabin. or abjinth, Toachild of three years 
of uge, 12 grains of the root in fubftance is 
a moderate dofe: and I repeat it morning and 
evening for fome days ; ordering, at the fame 
time, 
