STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
with great success by American physicians in Cincinnati: it 
acted like electricity, so sudden and diffusive was the effect 
on the system. 
“Tn the summer complaint of young children it is also 
used with great success. The following is an excellent 
receipt for that disease among children: 
“Rhubarb-root, Colombo cinnamon—of each 1 drachm; 
Prickly Ash berries, 3 drachms; good brandy, half a pint. 
Add the bruised articles to the brandy, shaking them occa- 
sionally for three or four days. The dose for a child of two 
years old is a teaspoonful thrice a day in sweetened water. 
Where any swelling of the body is apparent, equal parts of 
the tincture of Prickly Ash berries and olive oil is of great 
use rubbed in over the abdomen. In typhus and typhoid 
fevers the value of this tincture is very great. A teaspoonful 
diluted with water may be given, in cases of great depression 
and prostration, every twenty minutes; it is also used most 
successfully in chronic rheumatism.” 
I make no apology for introducing the above, thinking it 
may prove a valuable receipt. 
Another of our lovely creeping forest evergreens is the 
CREEPING SNOWBERRY—Chiogenes hispidula (T. & G.). 
This interesting little plant forms beds in the spongy soil 
of the damp cedar swamps, spreading its matted trailing 
branchlets over the mossy trunks of fallen trees. The foliage 
is dark green, very small, and myrtle-like in texture, hard 
and glossy. The flowers, which are solitary in the axils of 
the leaves, are not very showy; they are bell-shaped and 
four-cleft at the margin, greenish-white in color. The berry 
is pure white and waxy, and lying in the deep green mat of 
tiny evergreen leaves has a charming effect. 
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