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 . e^ or opium. It acts as an emmenagogue and diuretic;and is considered available in dropsy, jaundice, scurvy, andcutaneous eruptions. It is usually employed by way of in-fusion. The dried leaves are employed in medicinal bathsand fomentations. MARSK-T^.OSE^AUY.—iStaticeCaroUniana.){Properties.)—Antiseptic, Astringent, Tonic. Description. — Marsh-rosemary rises with bunches orclusters of leaves, blunt, ending with a sma
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 . e^ or opium. It acts as an emmenagogue and diuretic;and is considered available in dropsy, jaundice, scurvy, andcutaneous eruptions. It is usually employed by way of in-fusion. The dried leaves are employed in medicinal bathsand fomentations. MARSK-T^.OSE^AUY.—iStaticeCaroUniana.){Properties.)—Antiseptic, Astringent, Tonic. Description. — Marsh-rosemary rises with bunches orclusters of leaves, blunt, ending with a small point, muchbroader at the termination than at the base, and with longfootstalks. The flowerstalk, which varies from one half toa foot in hight, more or less, spreads near the top, andbears loosely imnicled, small, purplish flowers, the petals ofwhich are blunt, and with a narrow, dwindling base. It isfound about salt marshes and sea-coasts,—its time of flower-ing is in August and September. Medical Uses.—The large, tapering, brownish root of thisplant, is the part used in medicine, and furnishes one of themost powerful astringents which we find in the Materia. Angelica Atropurpurea, (Masterwort.)
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