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and I drank it more or less for five years, and on one occa- 

 sion for three months together, as my only drink, both with 

 food and otherwise; and what is remarkable, out of the mul- 

 titude of persons whom I have known to use it, there is not 

 ©ne who is not happy to acknowledge its beneficial effects. 

 Among them, I would beg leave to refer to a gentleman of 

 eminence as a physician, in New-York, who addressed the 

 following to Dr. Samuel L. Mitchell, a year after my paper 

 had been copied into the Evening Post, and to which he 

 doubtless alludes :" 



''Neiv-York, Sept. 5th, 1821. 

 "Sir, 



"I address you at the particular request of my son, the 

 late Dr. John W. Wynkoop. His disease was consump- 

 tive, and in its progress he had repeated attacks of hoemorr- 

 hage from the lungs, or spitting of blood. To relieve this 

 symptom, he drank a tea made of water-hoarhound, or Lyc- 

 opus virginicus, called also Bugle-weed. It operated as a 

 sovereign remedy against the inward bleeding, which it 

 used to stop without fail ; and it was his desire, during his 

 last illness, that the beneficial effects of this remedy should 

 be published to the world. His case affords confir- 

 mation to the statements that have already been made of 

 its great virtue in haemoptysis. My own observation shows 

 that this native vegetable possesses similar powers in res- 

 training blood from outward injuries: such as cuts and bruis- 

 es, if applied to the wound in substance. Hoping this in- 

 formation may be serviceable to my fellow-creatures, I of- 

 fer you the assurance of my i-espect. 



"PETER WYNKOOP." 



Tiie plant and its great efficacy as a vulnerary, have 

 been known in England for more than a century ; it is 

 there called bugle-weed. The first information I can learn 

 of its use in this country, was about thirty years since. It 

 was then used by an Indian in Windsor, in this state, to 

 stanch the blood in an external wound from a scythe. Its 

 good effects here were equally surprising. In this case it 

 was bruised soft, and applied to the wound. 



*Europoeus is distinguished by the calyx being accuminate-spined, flow- 

 ers small, whorled, and the plant generally smaller than the Virginicus. 



