MEDICAL BOTANY. 265 



PYROLACE^E. 

 CHIMAPHILA. 



775. Corymbosa. Leaves, stalks, and roots bitter-sweet, pungent. 

 Diuretic. Fresh leaves acrid, acting as vesicants and rube- 

 facients. Stomachic and tonic. 



ERICACEAE. 

 RHODODENDRON. 



776. Maximum. Astringent, narcotic. Acting as a poison. 



777. Ponticum. Astringent, narcotic. Reported to be deleterious. 



778. Chrysanthum. Leaves narcotic in a high degree ; useful in 



chronic rheumatism and venereal complaints. 



AZALEA. 



779. Pontica. Qualities of the plant deleterious. 



LEDUM. 



780. Latifolium. The leaves infused in beer produce head-ache and 



delirium ; although they have been used with advantage 

 in agues, dysentery, and diarrhoea. 



781. Palustre. Ditto. 



KALMIA. 



782. Latifolia. Leaves poisonous to animals ; narcotic. Young 



shoots poisonous to man. A brown powder which adheres 

 to them acts as a sternutatory. 



GAULTHEBIA. 



783. Procumbens. Fruit contains an aromatic, sweet, pungent, vo- 



latile oil, which is antispasmodic and diuretic. A tincture 

 useful in diarrhoea. 



ARBUTUS. 



784. Unedo. A wine is made from the fruit, reported to be narcotic. 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. 



785. Uva ursi. Leaves astringent and bitter. Used in nephritic 



and calculous cases. Diuretic. 



LOISELEURIA. 



786. Procumbens. Useful as an astringent medicine. 



