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weed,  yellow  jasmine ;  for  conium,  American  hemlock ;  for  opium, 
American  hemlock,  motherwort ;  for  sarsaparilla,  wild  sarsaparilla, 
soapwort,  yellow  parilla,  China  briar,  queen's  delight ;  for  chamomile, 
dogwood ;  for  flaxseed,  watermelon  seed ;  for  gum  arabic,  low  mal- 
lows, apple,  pear  and  quince  gum,  balm,  watermelon  seed ;  for  ergot, 
cotton  root ;  for  guaiacum,  boxwood,  poke,  prickly  ash ;  for  ipecac, 
wild  jalap,  Carolina  hipps ;  for  mezereon,  prickly  ash ;  for  Kino  and 
catechu,  cranesbill ;  for  senna,  wild  senna ;  for  colocynth,  alum  root ; 
for  tannin,  smooth  sumac ;  for  olive  oil,  peanut  oil,  beechnut  oil, 
cotton-seed  oil ;  for  laudanum,  hops,  motherwort ;  for  acacia,  slippery 
elm  bark,  sassafras  pith;  for  bougies,  slippery  elm  bark;  for  corks, 
blackgum  roots,  tupelo  wood,  corncobs ;  for  allspice,  spice  bush ;  for 
assafoetida,  wild  chamomile ;  for  calomel,  dandelion  pleurisy  root, 
butterfly  weed  ;  for  belladonna  and  hyoscyamus,  Jamestown  weed  ;  for 
valerian,  lady's  slipper;  for  colchicum,  Indian  poke. 
From  various  physicians,  intelligent  ladies  and  from  old  Con- 
federate magazines  and  books  and  newspapers  I  have  gathered  the 
following  data  in  reference  to  peculiar  and  unusual  uses  of  articles 
that  are  incident  to  our  trade,  that  seemed  to  be  of  more  or  less 
general  employment  in  the  South  by  physicians,  druggists  and  in 
Confederate  households ; 
Wood  anemone  was  employed  as  a  vesicatory  in  removing  corns 
from  the  feet.  Powdered  mayapple  mixed  with  resin  was  used  as  a 
caustic  in  treating  horses,  the  farriers  using  it  for  escharotic  pur- 
poses. On  farms  the  juice  of  the  pulp  of  the  maypop  juice  was 
made  into  a  summer  drink  in  place  of  lemonade.  Powdered  blood- 
root,  snuffed  up  the  nose,  made  a  powerful  sternutatory  and  was 
applied  as  an  escharotic  to  fungous  flesh.  Pond  lily  poultice  was 
extensively  applied  to  ulcers.  Button  snakeroot,  or  globe  flower, 
was  used  largely  as  an  expectorant  and  diuretic.  Toothache  bark 
(Aralia  spinosa)  was  used  to  allay  pain  caused  by  carious  teeth, 
and  in  South  Carolina  the  negroes  relied  on  it  almost  exclusively 
for  rattlesnake  bite.  Side  saddle  or  flycatcher  was  used  in  the 
various  forms  of  dyspepsia.  Ink  was  made  from  the  rind  of  the 
pomegranate  fruit,  ink  balls  and  copperas,  and  from  poke-berries. 
Where,  during  convalescence,  an  astringent  tonic  was  indicated,  dog- 
wood supplied  the  need.  This,  with  the  blackberry  and  gentians  and 
pipsissewa  as  tonics  and  diuretics,  and  sweetgum  and  sassafras  for 
mucilaginous  and  aromatic  properties,  and  wild  jalap  as  a  cathartic, 
