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dislodge worms from the stomach. This hint of the anthelmintic 
property of this part, may not, perhaps, be unworthy of notice, 
though other emetics have sometimes produced the same effect. 
Dr. Shoepf has also mentioned that a weak decoction of the root 
was used in gonorrhoea, against the bites of serpents, and in bilious 
diseases ; that the juice was employed against warts, and that the 
powder of the root, in the dose of one drachm, was exhibited in 
jaundice. Dr. Dexter, of Cambridge, Mass., says that in some trials 
lie made with the plant, it proved efficacious as a stimulant and 
diaphoretic in doses of one grain of the powdered root, or ten drops 
of the saturated tincture. Dr. Thatcher mentions the reputed effi- 
cacy of this root in removing jaundice, and says it is believed to be 
the chief ingredient in the quack medicine known by the name of 
Rawsoris bitters. A spirituous tincture of the root is said to be fre- 
quently used in New England, in various diseases, as a tonic bitter." 
Prof. Barton, speaking further of the qualities of this root, says : i: I 
prepared some of the tincture from the recent roots, last spring. It 
is intensely bitter, approaching, in its permanent impression on the 
tongue, to acerb. I have used this preparation of the plant in three 
cases, and with the manifest effect of increasing the appetite and 
tone of the stomach. It was used in the same way as wine bitters. 
I can readily believe that in this form it has done much good, at 
least as a prophylactic, in those low marshy grounds of the southern 
states, where the inhabitants are said to use it to guard them against 
intermittents, and what the country people call £ inward fevers.' The 
dose of the saturated tincture of the root is from thirty to eighty 
drops, twice a day, increasing or decreasing the number as circum- 
stances may require. I have found twenty drops twice a day a good 
average dose. 
A decoction of the root has been recommended in the treatment 
of old and indolent ulcers ; and the powdered root applied a few 
times in some cases of ill-conditioned ulcers, with callous edges and 
an inchorous discharge, produced a healthy state of the sores. I 
