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nary and hepatic cases, and chronic rheumatism. It is too stimulating 

 for acute attacks. Owes its powers to an alkaloid principle, San- 

 guinarina, discovered by the late Dr. Dana. Dose of powdered root, 

 as expectorant, two to three grains ; of tincture, gtt. x. to xxx. ; we have 

 known 3 ss. prove fatal. To be used cautiously, and in combination 

 with ipecac, antimony, or opiates. 



Papaver Somniferum, Linn., (Common Poppy), growing in waste 

 grounds, scarcely naturalized. This is the opium poppy, too well 

 known to need description here. 



Chelidonium Majus,* Linn., (Common Celandine). A very 

 valuable plant, and altogether too much neglected. A stimulating ape- 

 rient, diuretic, deobstruent and sudorific ; useful in chronic, hepatic, 

 and bronchial affections, and cutaneous diseases ; also in scrofula. Ex- 

 ternally, the fresh juice is used as a caustic to remove warts : also to 

 stimulate old and indolent ulcers, and promote healthy granulations ; 

 also to remove specks from cornea, diluted with some bland fluid. Ca- 

 taplasm of fresh leaves useful as an application in herpes and psora. 

 Dose of dried root, 3 ss. to 3j. ; of fresh juice, 30 to 40 drops, with wa- 

 ter; watery extract, five to ten grs. ; vinous tincture, 3j. to 3 ij. 



Fu3iariace.se, De Cand. — (The Fumitory Tribe). 



This order furnishes the common fumatory, Fumaeia Officina- 

 lis, f the herbage of which is bitter, slightly diaphoretic and aperient. 

 The juice was formerly administered in cutaneous diseases, and ob- 

 structions of the liver. The Dicentra,?. EndJ., Corydalis and Ad- 

 xumia, Raf., which formerly belonged to the above genus, are made 

 distinct genera by Dr. Torrey, and they all possess similar properties. 

 The common fumitory abounds in saline substances and bitter extrac- 

 tive. It is gently tonic ; in large doses, laxative and diuretic ; in 

 smaller doses, alterative. A good remedy in visceral obstructions, par- 

 ticularly of the liver, and in scorbutic and cutaneous affections. Cul- 

 len gave the expressed juice 5 ij. in a day. It may be given in decoc- 

 tion of the acrid or fresh leaves, or in form of extract. 



Cruciferje, Juss. 



The Cruciferous Tribe furnish several medicinal plants in this 

 state, chiefly exotic, and possessing similar properties. Nasturti- 

 um Palustre,|| D. C, (Marsh Cress). N. Hisfidum, D. C, (Hispid 



* From chelidon, the Greek for swallow — as the plant flowers about the time this 

 bird arrives in the spring. 



t From f limits, smoke, in allusion to its smell. 



X From dis, and kentron, a spur. 



|| From nasus tortus, distorted nose ; so named from its supposed effect in distorting 

 the nasal muscles. 



