i  Am.  Jour.  Plharm. ) 
Feb.,  1881.  j 
Varieties. 
85 
1875  he  piiblLslied  a  book  upon  "The  Movements  and  Habits  of 
♦Climbing  Plants;"  and  he  has  since  extended  his  inquiries  so  as  to  in- 
clude the  movements  manifested  by  the  entire  vegetable  series,  except  the 
lowest  flowerless  plants,  and  upon  these  he  is  now  engaged.  He  has  just 
published  an  account  of  these  researches  in  a  volume  of  six  hundred  pages, 
uniform  with  his  other  works. — Eliza  A.  Youmans^  in  Popular  Science 
.Monthly  for  February. 
Clover  Tea  for  Cancer.— A  writer  in  the  "Medical  News "  says :  The 
clover  tea  has  done  wonders  for  me.  My  appetite  is  now  good,  my  general 
health  greatly  improved,  and  the  wound  is  healing.  For  seven  months  I 
have  had  to  take  morphia,  and  its  unpleasant  effects  had  become  great. 
My  pain  having  so  much  diminished  under  the  use  of  the  clover  tea,  and 
my  general  health  having  gotten  so  much  better,  I  determined  to  give  up 
-the  mori3liia,  and  have  gotten  on  comfortably  without  it.  If  my  experience 
will  save  one  j)oor  suffering  fellow  creature  a  single  pang  such  as  I 
;have  suffered,  I  will  thankfully  bear  my  cross,  and  rejoice  that  through  me 
a  remedy  has  been  found  which  will  give  relief,  if  not  cure,  for  cancer, 
The  tea  should  be  made  as  tea  is  made  for  table  use,  strained,  and  taken 
before  meals  and  at  bedtime,  about  a  quart  daily.  The  blossoms  of  red 
clover  should  be  used. 
A  fluid  extract  has  been  made,  of  which  the  dose  is  a  tablespoonful 
thrice  daily. —  Va.  Medical  Monthly. 
.Actinomeris  Helianthoides. — The  root  of  actinomeris  helianthoides 
is  from  the  size  of  a  quill  to  that  of  a  knitting  needle,  and  has  an  oil  and 
perhaps  a  resin  in  it,  giving  it  the  taste  and  somewhat  the  smell  of  turpen- 
tine. It  has  long  been  used  by  the  people  of  Upper  Georgia  in  dropsy, 
under  the  name  of  diabetes  weed.  Dr.  I.  G.  M.  Goss  says  that  he  has  used 
it  in  several  abstinate  cases  of  dropsy  and  in  several  cases  of  chronic  cystitis 
with  fine  effect;  also  in  calculous  affections  and  in  chronic  inflammation 
of  the  entire  urinary  tract.  He  gives  it  in  the  form  of  a  tincture,  one  or 
two  drachms  to  a  dose,  as  a  diuretic,  or  as  an  infusion,  in  doses  of  one-half 
to  one  ounce,  repeated  every  hour  or  two.  It  may  be  tinctured  in  sweet 
spirit  of  nitre,  eight  to  sixteen  ounces  of  nitre. — Netv  York  Med.  Jour., 
from  Med.  Times,  Nov.  .20th. 
-Belladonna  .Jujubes. — The  influence  of  belladonna  upon  the  mucous 
membranes  is  well  know^n,  and  hence  its  value  in  some  forms  of  irritable  blad- 
der and  especially  in  the  "  nocturnal  incontinence"  of  children,  has  long 
been  fully  recognized  ("British  Med,  Jour.").  Now,  children  do  not  like 
medicine,  but  they  do  like  sweetmeats.  Dr.  J.  Hickinbotham,  physician  to 
the  Birmingham  and  Midland  Hospital  for  Women,  has,  therefore,  had  made 
some  jujubes  of  most  agreeable  flavor,  each  containing  two  minims  of  the 
pharmacopoeial  tincture  of  belladonna.  The  use  of  the  jujul)es  will  of 
course  not  l)e  limited  to  the  cases  above  described.  Dr.  Hickinbotham  lias 
found  them  useful  in  an  obstinate  "tickling"  cough. — Louisv.  Med.  Neivs, 
-December  25th. 
