MOUNTAIN LAUREL, A POISONOUS PLANT. 



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been employed for various forms of skin diseases, such as tinea, etc., 

 but now it has fallen entirely out of use. A tincture is still used by 

 homeopathic physicians. The only indications for its use would be 

 as a substitute for some member of the veratrine or aconitine family. 



a Boericke and Tafel. Amer. Homeop. Pharrn., 1896, p. 279. 



Note. — Kalmia angustifolia is used by the Cree Indians as a tonic. Bui. 

 Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 12, p. 53, 1885. 



Note to the Second Edition. — Since the publication of this article it has. 

 been learned that the leaves used by the experimenter referred to on page 26, 

 footnote a, were examined by Prof. Victor K. Chesnut, whose card catalogue 

 was found very useful in preparing the historical portion of this paper, and 

 he identified them as those of oleander and not of mountain laurel. 



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