. The Pharmaceutical era. that land. No especial valueIs put on sassafras wood; it is not sought for fence posts,nor is it used to drive away insects of any a remedy, it is used in the spring to thin the blood,being drunk as a tea. Indeed, I do not dislike it as abeverage, early impressions leading me now to occasion-ally take a package of fresh bark home with me for afamily dish of sassafras tea. This is made exactly likecoffee; is prepared as a beverage, and is sweetened andused with cream in the same waj-. That sassafras teawas a very common beverage in my boyhoods days, mayb
. The Pharmaceutical era. that land. No especial valueIs put on sassafras wood; it is not sought for fence posts,nor is it used to drive away insects of any a remedy, it is used in the spring to thin the blood,being drunk as a tea. Indeed, I do not dislike it as abeverage, early impressions leading me now to occasion-ally take a package of fresh bark home with me for afamily dish of sassafras tea. This is made exactly likecoffee; is prepared as a beverage, and is sweetened andused with cream in the same waj-. That sassafras teawas a very common beverage in my boyhoods days, maybe shown by the following incident: I was traveling upthe .Ohio river on one of the palatial steamers of otherdays, and the waiter asked a Kentuckian at my side whoordered tea, what kind of tea he wanted? Store answered, kin git pleanty of sassafras at home. It was not customary for sassafras tea drinkers to keepthe root bark separated from the root. They wouldshave the recently dug roots as the bark was used. Ken-. Taken from Le Page Du Pratz Histoire de la L>ouisiana.*Paris. 1758. Vol. II., p. 36. tuckians claim that there are two varieties of sassafras,the red sassafras and the white, distinguished only by thebark. The white sassafras is not so aromatic, and isbitter to the taste, and they use only the red bark. In addition to the wood, root and bark, mucilage of thepith is employed in domestic medicine to bathe inflamedeyes. I find a complete description of the domestic usesof Sassafras in Rafinesques Medical Flora, 1830, whichfor various reasons I feel called upon to reproduce as anending to this record of sassafras. Found from Canada, to Mexico and Brazil. Roots,bark, leaves, flowers frsigrant and spicy. Flavor andsmell peculiar, similar to fennel, sweetish subacid, resid-ing In a volatile oil heavier than water. The Sassafrine,a peculiar mucus unalterable by alcohol, found chieflyIn the twigs and pith, thickens water, very mild andlubricating; very useful in oph
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