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When cool, the clear liquor is to be poured off; it is then fit for 

 use. Let it be understood that we merely refer to the agent as 

 a local remedy. There are other conditions which require ful- 

 filment well known to the profession, and witnout attention to 

 which no case of ophthalmia could ever be brought to a favor- 

 able termination. The conditions alluded to may be thus ex- 

 pressed : Keep the bowels regular ; confine the animal to a light 

 diet ; keep the head cool, and feet warm ; ventilate the stable, 

 and confine the horse to a dark corner. 



Goldenseal, combined with an equal quantity of charcoal, in 

 the proportion of two drachms night and morning, is of great 

 value in dysentery, flux, and scouring, especially when there is a 

 tendency to putrescence. The powdered root has been used 

 with decided advantage, as an injection, in diarrhoea, and in fall- 

 ing of the fundament and womb. It has long been employed in 

 human practice, in ardor urinse, gleet, gonorrhoea, leucorrhcea, 

 &c. Dr. McCann states, that " the ardor urinae, and discharges 

 of mucus, have been entirely suspended, in every case, in from 

 twenty-four to seventy-two hours. It is a perfect and perma- 

 nent eradicator of the disorder." 



In fetid discharges from the vagina or anus, we have em- 

 ployed it with decided advantage. The dry powder has been 

 found highly useful alone, (although we prefer to add to it a 

 small quantity of charcoal,) in obstinate ulcers and old sores. 



Goldenseal belongs to the class Polyandria, order Polygynia, 

 natural order Ranunculaceae. It is an indigenous plant, grow- 

 ing in different parts of the United States, but most abundantly 

 beyond the Alleghanies. It has a perennial root, and an herba- 

 ceous stem, from five to twelve inches in height, two unequal 

 le'aves, and a single flesh-colored flower. The root is tortuous, 

 and from which arise numerous long fibres, of a bright-yellow 

 color. 



