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ear, and in sores. , Sage is of excellent use to help the 

 memory, warming and quickening the senses; and the 

 conserve made of the flowers is used to the same pur- 

 pose, and also for all the former recited diseases. The 

 juice of Sage drank with vinegar, hath been of good use 

 in tune of the plague at all times. Gargles likewise are 

 made with Sage, rosemary, honey-suckles, and plantain, 

 boiled in wine or water, with some honey or allum put 

 thereto, to wash sore mouths and throats, cankers, or 

 the secret parts of man or woman, as need requires. 

 And with other hot and comfortable herbs, Sage is 

 boiled to bathe the body and the legs hi the summer 

 tune, especially to warm cold joints, or sinews, trou- 

 bled with the palsy and cramp, and to comfort and 

 strengthen the parts. It is much commended against 

 the stitch, or pains in the side coming of wind, if the 

 place be fomented warm with the decoction thereof in 

 wine, and the herb also after boiling be laid warm 

 thereunto." 



SANGUINARIA (Bloodroot) 



Official in every edition of the Pharmacopeia, from 1820 to 

 1910. 



Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, is found through- 

 out the temperate regions of the United States, east of 

 the Mississippi River. It was used by the Indians as a 

 dye for their garments, and for staining their faces and 

 bodies, in which direction it served the double object 

 of a coloring material, and to keep away insects, it being 

 to them disagreeable. The Indians also used it as an 

 acrid emetic, and, mixed with other herbs, in the form 

 of an ointment, as an application to indolent ulcers, its 

 action being somewhat escharotic. The early settlers 



