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reason teaches us to leave it off, or if not, it becomes an 
article of food instead of a medicine. In combination with 
other tonics and astringents it is highly beneficial in nervous 
debility, seminal weakness, &c. 
In the foregoing pages we have briefly pointed out the 
prominent medicinal plants. There are many others, which 
time and space prevent us from describing at any length, but 
in order to bring a comparatively complete list under the eye 
of the reader, we will adopt the alphabetical catalogue, with 
abbreviated properties and doses, given by Dr. Dals of 
Glasgow, adding to it a few recent additions since his time. 
