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 . Lobelia Syphilitica, (Blue Lobelia.). Scutellaria Lateriflora, (Blue Skullcap.) MATERIA MEDICA. 29 in medicine. It tastes like tobacco, is emetic, and a drasticpurge. It is generally found in the Western and Southern decoction of the root has acquired much popularity as anantisyphilitic, from which it derived its name. It has, more-over, been highly extolled in the cure of dropsy, diarrhea,and dysentery. Do^e
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 . Lobelia Syphilitica, (Blue Lobelia.). Scutellaria Lateriflora, (Blue Skullcap.) MATERIA MEDICA. 29 in medicine. It tastes like tobacco, is emetic, and a drasticpurge. It is generally found in the Western and Southern decoction of the root has acquired much popularity as anantisyphilitic, from which it derived its name. It has, more-over, been highly extolled in the cure of dropsy, diarrhea,and dysentery. Do^e.—From half to a whole tea spoonful of the pulverizedroot, taken in water three or four times a day. BLUE mV^;KY.—{Scutellaria latenflora.){Properties.)—Nervine, Sudorific, Tonic. Description.—This plant rises with a square, upright stem,between one and a half and three feet in hight, with lateralbranches containiug a few small leaves. Leaves broadest to-ward the base, sharply notched on the edges, and oppositelyarranged. It has a stringy, yellowish root,—and is foundabout meadows and woods, producing flowers in the summerseason. Medical Uses.—Its property as a nervine is of high repu-tatio
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