Uvularia perfoliata as a remedy for Poisoned Wounds. 271 
gentleman attached to the Delaware coal company, but who has 
forbidden me.to use his name. No other remedy of a nature cal- 
culated to diminish pain appeared to have been employed, unless 
a tight and hard ligature above the knee be considered such. 
This, however, appeared to me rather to increase than diminish 
the sufferings of the wounded individual. I apprehend, further, 
that the pain produced by. the bite of a copper-head does not.in 
general, terminate in so-short a period as three hours, and that 
the amount of pain relieved exceeded that usually experienced 
from the application of cold and wet substances, as mud, &c. to 
| envenomed stings. Under these circumstances, the case seemed 
p to possess a certain weight in favor of the real usefulness of this 
antidote.- The details of the narrative will be appehded to the 
present notice. 
. The gentleman already alluded to, had known it to be previ- 
ork employed in two cases with apparent success; in the first 
of which, it was applied by an old’ Indian to the bite of a rattle- 
snake near the shoulder of a boy. ~ 
I observe in the Medical Flora of Prof. Roknesine that the 
different species of Uvularia, particularly the perfoliata and grandi- 
flora, are set down as “said to be equal to Hieracium nervosum 
Frénesam] in bites of rattlesnakes ;” and to the Hieracium he 
3 elsewhere (p. 228) gives a high character. I am ignorant from 
what sources Mr. Rafinesque derives his information relative to 
. the powers of the Uvularia, unless it is from the following passa- 
ges in Schepf, p. 40: “vis,—maturans, aperiens: usws,—radix 
aqua contusa ad-vulnera Caudison, aliaque vulnera et ulcera. 
Herbee decoctum ad inflammationem oris, laryngis, tonsillarum.” 
T From its affinities, it may be reasonably supposed to possess active 
properties ; Dr. Lindley placing it with Veratrum, Helonias and 
, and Dr. Torrey, near Medeola and Trillium. When 
chewed, it afforded but little saaslag, with a bitterish taste, and 
produced a strong sialagogue effect, pn a scarcely perceptible 
nausea. 
Upon summing up this evidence fam me aad: to believe, that a 
certain degree of probability attaches to the ascription of remedial 
virtues to this plant in cases of envenomed wounds. If we add 
together the observations at Pottsville, the statements of Professor 
_ Rafinesque, and the botanical analogies, I can hardly feel willing 
to pass them by as unworthy of attention. We may further sug- 
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