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of honey and sugar as vehicles in the preparation of Com- 
pound Syrup of Squill. 
Dr. Carson made some observations on the plant called 
" matico," from Upper Peru, and contributed a specimen. 
The plant has the characteristics of a Piper. It is used in 
dressing wounds as a hemostatic application, and from 
the benefit in such cases has acquired the appellation of 
" soldiers' weed." Dr. Ruschenberger, who first brought 
it to the United States, has employed it in the Naval 
Hospital at Brooklyn, as a stimulating and styptic applica- 
tion locally, in several external subacute inflammatory 
affections, as well as internally, and, he states, with advan- 
tage. 
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