ANTISPASMODICS, od 
YELLOW JESSAMINE (Getseminum SEMPERVIRENS), 
Is said to be one of the most beautiful plants in the Southern 
States of America. It has a climbing habit, ascending lofty 
trees and forming festoons from one tree to another, and in 
its flowering season scenting the atmosphere with its sweet 
odour. The stem is smooth and shining; it twines round the 
article it grows upon; the leaves are dark-green on the upper 
surface, pale under ; the flowers are yellow; they are said to be 
poisonous. The root is the part used in medicine. We can 
say from our many years’ experience of the use of this 
medicine that it is all its most ardent admirers claim for 
it, that is, when it is in good condition, not having lost its 
strength through age. Professor Davis of Chicago, while 
speaking of Gelsemine, said that the most of what was 
found in the shops was about as good as a decoction of the 
straw out of a last year’s hen’s nest. The tincture of Gelsemine 
is, we think, the best preparation. We have found it an 
excellent medicine in neuralgia, curing after all others tried had 
failed. A lady in this city had thecomplaint for about two years, 
trying all, even a voyage to thc old country. She came back 
with her old enemy. Consulting us, we gave her a 2-ounce 
bottle, directing her to take half a teaspoonful three times a 
day. We see her occasionally, but she has never complained 
of the neuralgia since, that is four years ago. 
Dr King in the American Dispensatory writes: “It is said 
by some to be the only agent yet discovered that will subdue 
in from 2 to 20 hours, and with the least possible injury to the 
patient, the most formidable and the most complicated, as well 
as the most simple fevers incident to our country and climate, 
quieting all nervous irritability and excitement, equalising the 
circulation, and promoting perspiration, rectifying the various 
secretions without causing nausea, vomiting, or purging, and 
is also adapted to any stage of thedisease. It may follow any 
preceding treatment with safety. Its effects are clouded 
vision, double-sightedness, or even complete prostration, with 
inability to open the eyes. This gradually passes off in a few 
