DrHood's plain talks about the human system : the habits of men and women - the causes and prevention of disease - our sexual relations and social natures - embracing common sense medical . ferent periods of its career enjoyed a high reputation for thecure of many diseases, but it must be confessed that in reality it is a drug of nogreat value. It is the wood of a tree, somethirty or forty feet high, growing in Jamaicaand the warmer parts of America. Weusually see it in the chemists shops in logsor billets, which are readily recognised fromthe central portion being almost black, and
DrHood's plain talks about the human system : the habits of men and women - the causes and prevention of disease - our sexual relations and social natures - embracing common sense medical . ferent periods of its career enjoyed a high reputation for thecure of many diseases, but it must be confessed that in reality it is a drug of nogreat value. It is the wood of a tree, somethirty or forty feet high, growing in Jamaicaand the warmer parts of America. Weusually see it in the chemists shops in logsor billets, which are readily recognised fromthe central portion being almost black, andthe surrounding wood of a much lightercolour. „It is generally known as lignumvita—wood of life. It is very hard andheavy, and is frequently used for makingrulers, skittle-balls, and other similararticles. The black central portion con-tains a large quantity of resin, which isobtained by allowing it to exude from theliving trunk of the tree. The best way in which to take this drug is as the ammoniated tincture of guaiacum, which is 8solution of the resin in sal volatile. It should be taken in tea-spoonful doses inabout half a tumblerful of milk three or four times a day. It may be employed. .—CniAIAOCM. GELSEMINUM. 791 with advantage in many kinds of chronic rheumatism, particularly in that formin which the symptoms are relieved by warmth. Rheumatism is such anobstinate complaint that any drug which will afford us even a chance of doinggood should be thankfully received. GELSEMINUM. This, the yellow jessamine, field jessamine, or woodbine (Gelseminum semper-virens), is a native of America, and is one of the most beautiful climbing plants ofthe Southern States. It ascends lofty trees, forming festoons from branch to branch,and in its flowering season, in the early spring, scents the atmosphere with itsdelicious odour. It belongs to the Loganiacese or mix vomica family, and is not in anyway related to our common garden jessamine. It is extensively cultivated as a gardenplan
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