A plain system of medical practice, adapted to the use of families . s of Illyria. It may be used in allcases of disease depending upon pure debility of the digestiveorgans, or requiring a general tonic impression, as dyspepsia,gout, difficult menstruation, hysteria, scrofula, intermittent fever,diarrhoea, and worms. It is not the name of the disease, but thecondition of the stomach and bowels, that must be taken into con-sideration in its use. The powder has been applied externallyto ill-conditioned ulcers. It is usually given in the form of infu-sion or tincture. The dose in infusion is a wi
A plain system of medical practice, adapted to the use of families . s of Illyria. It may be used in allcases of disease depending upon pure debility of the digestiveorgans, or requiring a general tonic impression, as dyspepsia,gout, difficult menstruation, hysteria, scrofula, intermittent fever,diarrhoea, and worms. It is not the name of the disease, but thecondition of the stomach and bowels, that must be taken into con-sideration in its use. The powder has been applied externallyto ill-conditioned ulcers. It is usually given in the form of infu-sion or tincture. The dose in infusion is a wine-glassful threeor four times a day. It is made by infusing half an ounce of thepowdered root in a pint of water. A tea spoonful of the tincturemay be given as often, in a little water. The powdered root isgiven in ten or twenty grain doses, in sugar and water, threetimes a day. AN OINTMENT TO REMOVE PIMPLES FROM THE FACE. Beefs Harrow, one , thirty Mix them thoroughly, and touch the pimples, after squeezingout the hard lymph. 862 DANDELION. Leontodon Taraxacum. The dandelion is an herbaceous plant, with a perennial, fusi-form root. The leaves, which spring immediately from theroot, are long, pinnatifid, generally runcinate, with the divisionstoothed, smooth, and of a fine green color. The common nameof the plant was derived from the fancied resemblance of itsleaves to the teeth of a lion. The flower-stem rises from themidst of the leaves, six inches or more in height. It is erect,simple, naked, smooth, hollow, fragile, and terminated by a largegolden-colored flower, which closes in the evening, and expandswith the returning light of the sun. The calyx is smooth anddouble, with the outer scales bent downwards. The florets arevery numerous, ligulate and toothed at their extremities. Thereceptacle is convex and punctured. The seed-down is stipitate,and at the period of maturity is disposed in a spherical form, andis so light and downy as to be e
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