relieved of his disorder, and has seldom occasion to repeat the medicine above two or three times to com- 
plete a cure. 
From experiments which have been instituted in this country, the yellow Rhododendron appears to 
exert a stimulant, and diaphoretic effect; and as far as our experience goes, it supports the correctness of 
Dr. Home’s remarks, who states that it has a power on the heart, whereby arterial action is often much 
diminished. In one case he mentions that the pulse was reduced to thirty-eight beats, although imme- 
diately after its administration excitement was brought on, which was followed by a proportionate diminution 
in the arterial action. Pallas relates in his travels, that it is a common and successful remedy among some 
of the Tartar tribes in gout, and other painful disorders. They drink till it brings on some degree of ver- 
tigo, and symptoms of intoxication, which effects are generally accompanied by a tingling sensation in the 
parts affected, and an abatement of pain. These effects were also noticed by Koelpin, a friend of Professor 
Pallas, who not only speaks of its efficacy on himself, but in a tract, written in German and published at 
Berlin, extols it for its virtues in relieving gout and rheumatism. 
Sometimes it excites head-ache, nausea, vomiting, delirium, and other unpleasant symptoms. Ca- 
priolus, a companion of Steller, having eaten ten leaves, soon after began to stagger, toss his head about, 
and to reel. After a short time, he fell on his knees, in vain attempting to rise ; and although milk was 
copiously administered to him, he became overpowered with sleep for an hour and a quarter, during which 
time he started continually, and appeared terrified. When he awoke he appeared as cheerful as before, and 
it failed afterwards to produce the same effects. After this, the servants of Steller were constantly taking 
small quantities of it, on account of its pleasant intoxicating effects. 
When we administer it, we put half an ounce of its leaves in twelve ounces of water, and allow them to 
simmer only, for four hours. Of the strained liquor, a quarter may be given to an adult every four hours ; 
who, during its administration, must remain in bed, and its effects should be closely watched. The leaves 
of a different species, probably the R. Caucasicum, have been, for several years, sold by druggists for this 
plant; but Mr. Butler, of Covent Garden, has obtained a considerable quantity of the genuine drug from 
Siberia ; and in those constitutions with which colchicum disagrees, we venture to recommend it as a very 
efficacious remedy. 
When fruits, and herbs, and flowers are decayed and perished, they are continually succeeded by new 
productions ; and this governing power of the Deity is only His creating power constantly repeated. So it 
is with respect to the races of animated beings. What an amazing structure or parts, fitted to strain the 
various particles that are imbibed ; which can admit and percolate molecules of such various figures and 
sizes ! Out of the same common earth what variety of beings ! — a variety of which no human capacity can 
venture the calculation ! and each differing from the rest in taste, color, smell, and every other property ! 
How powerful must that art be, which makes the flesh of the various species of animals differ in all sensible 
qualities, and yet be formed by the separation of parts of the same common food! In all this is the Creator 
every where present, and every where active: it is He who clothes the fields with green, and raises the trees 
of the forest; who brings up the lowing herds and bleating flocks; who guides the fish of the sea, wings the 
inhabitants of the air, and directs the meanest insect and reptile of the earth. He forms their bodies incom- 
parable in their kind, and furnishes them with instincts still more admirable. Here is eternally living 
force, and omnipotent intelligence. 
