The people's physician; designed as a manual of medicine, expressly for the use of families and individuals ..To which is added a list of synonyms of many common medical plants . looms about May, and its flowers are succeeded by smallberries enveloped with a greenish wax. l^lfedical —Bayberry root bark is excellent to purgethe head in catarrhal complaints; and an infusion of the rootmay be employed with very great advantage, both internallyand externally, in canker, scrofula, and other impurities ofthe blood. Possessing naturally a binding quality, it is well calculatedto arrest loosenes
The people's physician; designed as a manual of medicine, expressly for the use of families and individuals ..To which is added a list of synonyms of many common medical plants . looms about May, and its flowers are succeeded by smallberries enveloped with a greenish wax. l^lfedical —Bayberry root bark is excellent to purgethe head in catarrhal complaints; and an infusion of the rootmay be employed with very great advantage, both internallyand externally, in canker, scrofula, and other impurities ofthe blood. Possessing naturally a binding quality, it is well calculatedto arrest looseness or fluxes of the bowels, as diarrhea, dys-entery, bloody flux: A gill of the warm infusion may betaken four times a day, an hour before eating and at bed time. The decoction of the bruised bark of the root, employed asa wash, and the bark, also, in form of a poultice, is highly use-ful in scrofulous ulcers, or any chronic stubborn sores. It is used with good success, moreover, in scarlet fever,and putrid ulcerous sore throat. In the two last cases mixbayberry tea, vinegar, and table salt—two table-spoonsfuleach;—and take a little every half hour. If this is timely. Cassia (Senua.)
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