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The whole plant is used, and lias been of late very 

 famous. Its efficacy is against the bite of a mad 

 dog- ; it is mixed with pepper, and the person is 

 at the same time to bathe in the sea. There have 

 been instances of its success, when given to dogs, but 

 perhaps no cure was ever performed upon a human 

 creature, when this terrible disease had arisen to 

 any height. Bleeding and opium are the present 

 practice. 



Logwood Tree. Arbor campechlana. 



A tree, native of the Southern parts of America, 

 the wood of which has been used in dying, longer 

 than in medicine, but is very serviceable in the 

 latter capacity. The tree is large, and makes a 

 beautiful appearance. The branches are numer- 

 ous, and they spread with a sort of regularity. 

 The leaves are composed each of several pairs of 

 smaller, set on the two sides of a common rib ; with 

 an odd one at the end. The flowers arc of the shape 

 of pea blossoms, but they are yellow ; the pods 

 which succeed them are very large, and the boughs of 

 the tree arc very thick set, with sharp thorns of a 

 reddish colour. 



We use only the heart of the wood which is of 

 a deep red colour. It is of an austere taste, but 

 with something of sweetness in it at last, in this it 

 resembles greatly what is called Japan earth, and 

 it resembles that drug also in its virtues. It is a 

 a very powerful medicine to stop fluxes of the 

 belly, and overflowing-, of the menses, The best 

 way of giving it is in form of an extract, which 

 is to be made by boiling: down a strong; decoction 

 of wood to the consistence of honey. In this 

 form it will keep a long time, and is always ready fey: 

 ase. 



