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16. I have used the Saccharum Saturni in three 

 cases of uterine haemorrhage, with complete success. 

 I have directed it in many more, but have not always 

 heard the result. I prescribe it, in all cases, with 

 this precaution : the usual astringents are given, and 

 with these some powders of the saccharum saturni. 

 The former are first used : if they have not the de- 

 sired effect, and the disease increases, they then take 

 the latter until it abates, after which the former are 

 again used. In this manner, I have prescribed it 

 (the saccharum saturni) for many distant patients ; 

 but in three dangerous cases, to which I was called, 

 it was used alone, and all were cured. 



John R. Young, M. D. 

 Letter, dated Hagerstoivn, March 29th, 

 1804. 



17. The Datura Stramonium (Jamestown-weed, 

 French-Chesnut) grows, in great abundance, about 

 St. Vincennes, on the River Wabash. It is not, 

 however, supposed to be a native plant in this part 

 of the country, but was introduced there about the 

 year 1785. The plant is cut down by legal order ; 

 for the inhabitants assert, that they were never affec- 

 ted with remitting fevers, until the Datura was intro- 

 duced among them. The effluvia arising from the 

 leaves, stems, and flowers of the plant, are supposed 

 to have given origin to the disease, which generally 

 makes its appearance (at Vincennesj about the begin- 



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