A plain system of medical practice, adapted to the use of families . species of Lobelia; —the L. Cardinalis,or Cardinal Flower,—the flowers are red and showy, — and theL. Syphilitica. But the Lobelia Inflata is the only species that ishighly medicinal. WINTERGREEN, OR PYROLA. See page 928, for Engraving. This is an evergreen, and is found in pine woods, and in lightshady soils, in all parts of the United States. It blossoms inmid-summer. It is called pipsisseway, pyrola, white leaf, & whole plant has rather a pungent and bitter taste. 846 VIRGINIA SNAKEROOT. Medical -properties and uses.
A plain system of medical practice, adapted to the use of families . species of Lobelia; —the L. Cardinalis,or Cardinal Flower,—the flowers are red and showy, — and theL. Syphilitica. But the Lobelia Inflata is the only species that ishighly medicinal. WINTERGREEN, OR PYROLA. See page 928, for Engraving. This is an evergreen, and is found in pine woods, and in lightshady soils, in all parts of the United States. It blossoms inmid-summer. It is called pipsisseway, pyrola, white leaf, & whole plant has rather a pungent and bitter taste. 846 VIRGINIA SNAKEROOT. Medical -properties and uses. — It is diuretic, sudorific andtonic. It is useful in all eruptive forms of disease, especially inscrofula and cancer. A strong decoction may be made of theleaves and twigs, and a gill may be drunk three times a cures of old ulcers, sore throats and such like affections,have been ascribed to the use of the pipsisseway. It must beremarked that this wintergreen is very different from the winter-green, generally so called, of the Western VIRGINIA SNAKEROOT. Aristolochia Serpentana. This species is an herbaceous plant, with a perennial root, whichconsists of numerous slender fibres, proceeding from a short hori-zontal caudex. Several stems often rise from the same root;they are about eight or ten inches in height, slender, round,flexuose, jointed at irregular distances, and frequently of a reddish EXTEMPORE GASEOUS CHALYBEATE WATER. 847 or t urple color at the base. The leaves are oblong, of a pale yel-lowish-green color, and supported on short petioles at the joints ofthe stem. The flowers proceed from the joints near the root, andstand singly on long, slender, round-jointed peduncles, which aresometimes furnished with one or two small scales, and benddownwards, so as nearly to bury themselves in the earth or deadleaves at the root of the stalk. The flower is of a purple plant grows in rich, shady woods, throughout the Middle,Southern and Wester
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