10 A Medico- Botanical Catalogue of Plants, fyc. 



very considerably among the negroes on the plantations. Its 

 effects are increased by uniting with camphor. 



Arum Tryphyllum, (Wake robin— Indian turnip.) — Chap. 

 Therap. II, 41 ; Matsou's Yeg. Pract., 295. Thomson also in 

 the Steam practice. Eb. Mat. Med. & Therap. II., 437 ; U. S. 

 Disp. 123 ; Pe. Mat. Med. II., 78 ; Bier. Am. Med. Bot. I., 52 ; 

 Am. Jonr. of Pharm. XV., S3; Thacher's |U. S. Disp, Art. A 

 triphyllum, 153: Cnlien's Mat. Medica II., 211 and 554; Mer. 

 de L. Diet, de Mat. Med. t. 1, 460; Coxe. Am. Disp., 121 : Big 

 Am. Med. Bot. L, 52; Schoepf. Mat. Med., 133: Op. Cit. Rush 

 II., 30' : Barton's Coll. to form, of Mat. Med'., 29; Shec. Fl. 

 Carol., 273; McCall in Phil. Med. Jour. 11.84; Cutler's Am. 

 Acad. I., 487 ; Lind. Nat. Syst. of Bot., 364. -'Milk in which 

 the acrid principle of the A. tripyllnm has been boiled, has been 

 known to cure consumption !" De. Cand. cit. in Lind. In the 

 Nat. Syst. Bot. p. 364. Lindley remarks of some of this class, 

 "That the spadines disengage a sensible quantity of heat when 

 they are about to open." Agardh, considers that the acrid prin- 

 ciple, which notwithstanding its fugacity, has lately been ob- 

 tained pure, is of great power as a stimulant. In corroboration, 

 I would mention that I have produced vesication merely by pla^ 

 cing a small portion of the stem of the Arum Waited, in contact 

 with the unbroken skin, both species are very irritating to the 

 Fauces. The root sliced, used as an application for poison from 

 the ivy. "In the chronic asthmatic affections of old people, it 

 is a remedy of very considerable value." According to Dr. 

 Thacher of approved efficacy in Rheumatism, and aphthous sore- 

 throat. 



Asarum, Canadense, (Wild ginger.) — Pe. Mat. Med. II., 

 234; Fr. Elems. 220: Am. Jour, of Pharm. X., 186; Diet. Univ. 

 des drogues simples, An., 1733 : IT. S. Disp., 125 ; Cull. Mat. 

 Med. II., 473-553 ; Me. and De. L. Diet. Univ. de Mat. Med. t. I., 

 463 ; Big. Am. Med. Bot. I., 149 : Schoepf. Mat. Med. 72, in op. 

 cit. Barton's Coll. to Mat. Med. 26,48 : Coxe's Am. Disp. 368 ; 

 Lind. Nat. Syst., 206. A stimulant and diaphoretic "applicable 

 to similar cases with serpentaria." Used among the people as a 

 substitute for ginger. A friend, who has employed it to some 

 extent on his plantation, informs me that in large doses it is a 

 never failing emetic. More than a teaspoonful of the root taken 

 in warm water at a dose. 



A Virginiaim, (Heart Snake Root.) — Fr. Elems. 219 ; Shec. 

 Fl. Carol. 218. "As a stimulating diaphoretic, fully equal to the 

 aristolochia serpentaria." 



A. Arifolium. — Shec. Fl. Carol, see A. Eucopeum, 217. An 

 emetic and errhine, used in paralysis of mouth and tongue. 



Asclepias tuberosa ) (see A. decumbens of some authors ; Pleu- 

 risy Root, Butterfly weed.)— Pe. Mat. Med. and Therap. II., 347; 



