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the testimony of Dr. Benjamin Parker, of Massachusetts, from his 
own observations during an extensive practice for many years in 
Virginia. From the successful employment of the White-root for 
twenty-five years, this respectable physician has imbibed such con- 
fidence, that he extols it as possessing the peculiar and almost spe- 
cific quality of acting on the organs of respiration, powerfully pro- 
moting suppressed expectoration, and thereby relieving the breathing 
of pleuritic patients in the most advanced stage of the disease ; and 
in pneumonic fevers, recent colds, catarrhs, and diseases of the chest 
in general, this remedy has in his hands proved equally efficacious. 
He directs it to be given in the form of strong infusion, a tea-cupful 
every two or three hours. By many families in this country this 
root has long been esteemed as a domestic medicine, resorted to for 
the relief of pains of the stomach, from flatulency and indigestion ; 
hence the vulgar name of Wind-root, by which it is known in some 
parts of the country ; but from its color it is generally called White- 
root. It is said that by a perseverance for several weeks in the use 
of about one drachm of the powdered root every day, the lost tone 
of the stomach and digestive powers has been restored. 
