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is a powerful astringent, and will stop very violent 

 bleeding.* 



The chenofiodium anthelminticum^ or wormseed 

 plant, is a powerful remedy against worms; the 

 seeds and expressed oil are used. The efficacy of 

 sfiigelia, or pinkroot, in the same complaint, is fam.i- 

 liar to us all. But a more powerful remedy is the 

 melia azedarach^ or pride of India, which although 

 not a native tree, is now naturalized amongst usj 

 especially in the southern States. Its use, however, 

 requires caution, as it is certainly possessed of active 

 powers. In Persia, according to the celebrated 

 botanist Michaux, the pulp investing the, stone, is 

 pounded with tallow, and used in cases of tinea ca-^ 

 pitis^ or scald head of children. 



The lobelia has long been before the public, as a 

 remedy for siphylis^ in the milder forms of which 

 it has certainly done good. 



Fyrola^ winter berry. A genus of plants com- 

 prehending six species, all of which are natives of 

 the United States. The P. maculata is exclusively 

 a native of our country. 



The P. umbellata or jiitisisseva^\\2L,% been specially 

 treated of by Dr. J. J. Mitchell, in his Inaugural 

 Dissertation, Philadelphia, 1803, by whom a variety 

 of experiments were made to ascertain its virtues. It 

 is astringent, and nearly allied to the arbutus uva 

 ursa or bear berry. It was used with success during 

 our revolutionary war in typhus. The application of 

 a decoction of the plant, joined with vinegar speedily 

 removed the blackness arising from a bruise. The 



* See Phil. Med. Museum, vol. ii, for an account of the medicinal 

 Virtues of some Asjsrim tr^QS^ sljrubs; ^a^J pl^ts^ by the author. 



