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the most delicate seasoning which they have found. In 
my own family we do not consider a soup or roast com- 
plete without a flavor of laurel, and should not be sur- 
prised that, if properly introduced, it will become as pop- 
ular and as great a necessity as tea and coffee. I hope 
that some enterprising chemist will analyze this drug, in 
order that we may know definitely to what its peculiar 
properties are due, and whether it is at all objectionable 
as a dietary article. It is certainly a very contradictory 
drug, producing in large doses almost toxical effects, 
while in small doses it becomes a stimulant to the ap- 
petite. 
Carya (Hickory). Both the leaves and the bark of 
the hickory are medicinal. They are possessed of very 
decided tonic properties, and, when given in the form of 
infusion, are valuable in atonic dyspepsia, besides pos- 
sessing also antiperiodic properties sufficiently marked 
to make them valuable both as a preventive and cura- 
tive of ague. 
