30 A Medico- Botanical Catalogue of Plants, fyc. 



Culpepper. Student in physic and astrology," p. 295. "Jupiter 

 claims this and bids me tell you it is good for the liver and to 

 breed blood " An aphrodisiac. "Helpeth conception, and hin- 

 ders miscarriage." 



Sambucus canadensis, (Elder.) — Le. Mat. Med. 11, 325; U. 

 S. Disp., 625 ; Dray. View. S. C. 66; Bell's Pract. Diet. 404; 

 (art. S. nigra) Royle Mat. Med. 423; Cull. Mat. Med. 11, 534; 

 Me. et de L. Diet, de Mat. Med. t. VI., 196 ; Lind. Nat. Syst. 

 Bot., 248. Leaves foetid, emetic, and a drastic purgative." Lind. 

 loc. cit. sup. Flowers are excitant and sudorific, used external- 

 ly as a discutient ; the berries are diaphoretic and aperient, em- 

 ployed as a remedy in rheumatic gouts and syphilitic affections ; 

 the inner bark is a hydragogue carthartic and emetic, acting in 

 dropsy, and as an alterative in various chronic diseases. The 

 leaf- buds are also said to act as a violent purgative. Op. cit. 



Samolus valerandi, (Brook weed.) — Me. & de L. Diet, de 

 Mat. Med. t. VI., 201 ; Journal Gen'l. de Med. LII. } 413. Lem- 

 ery says it is anti-scorbutic, aperient and vulnerary. 



Sanguinaria canadensis, (Puccoon, blood-root.) — Drayton's 

 View S. C. 72; Bell's Pract. Diet., 404; Eb. Mat. Med., 95; 

 Lind. Nat. Svst Bot., 8 : U. S. Disp., 627 ; Royle Mat. Med. 273 ; 

 Pe. Mat. Med. II., 722;' Am. Lye. Nat. Hist.*N. York, II, 250; 

 New-York Med. Phys. Journ. 1, No. 2; London Med. Chirur. 

 Trans. Vol. 1 , Barton's Med. Bot., 1, 30 ; Am. Journ. Med. Sci. 

 N. S. 11, 506 ; Journ. Phil. Coll. Pharm. III., 95 ; Ball. & Gar. 

 M. Med., 208 : Bier. Am. Med. Bot. J, 75 ; Schoepf. Mat. Med. 

 85 ; Trans. Lond. Med. Soc. 1, 179 ; Barton's Coll. & Mat. Med. 

 28 ; Cutler Mem. Am. Acad. 1, 455 ; Thacher's Disp. 331 ; Me. 

 & de L. Diet, de Mat. Med. t. VI., 208 ; Bull, des Sci. Med. Fer. 

 VI., 71; Edinb. Med. Journ. VII., 217; Shec. Fl. Carol. 153. 

 Emetic and purgative in large doses ; stimulant, diaphoretic and 

 expectorant in small. Very efficacious in jaundice. Extensive- 

 ly applied in domestic practice in St. John's, Berkley. It is an 

 acrid narcotic, causing vomiting, given in catarrh, typhoid, pneu- 

 monia, croup, rheumatism, &c. The Indians used the juice, 

 which exudes from the root, as a red pigment. The stain ap- 

 plied to the unbroken skin is not indelible. Merat says it is ser- 

 viceable in gonorrhoea, the bite of serpents, and in bilious fever; 

 he affirms that it has been employed with marked success in ar- 

 resting the progress of phthisis and inflammatory rheumatism, 

 and by Dr. Smith of Hanover, in destroying mucous polypi in 

 the nose. Eberle in his work on the Diseases of Children, p. 97, 

 says thai the powdered root is an excellent escarotic, in ulcera- 

 tion of the umbilicus, &c. This plant is abundant around us, 

 and should receive greater attention. 



Sarracenia, (Side saddle flower.) — Me. & de L. Diet, de Mat, 



