. American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 3) . PL r/./.v. VIRGINIA SNAKER0 0T. 83 was swallowed in season ; which being done, noone was ever known to be in danger of his lifefrom this cause. The snagr,oel has had a great many rivals inthe character of specifics against the bite ofserpents. So great, indeed, is the number ofarticles which are called uniformly successful insuch cases, that we ar
. American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 3) . PL r/./.v. VIRGINIA SNAKER0 0T. 83 was swallowed in season ; which being done, noone was ever known to be in danger of his lifefrom this cause. The snagr,oel has had a great many rivals inthe character of specifics against the bite ofserpents. So great, indeed, is the number ofarticles which are called uniformly successful insuch cases, that we are compelled to believe, thatthe bite of the rattle snake, and doubtless ofother venomous serpents in the country, althoughattended with severe and alarming consequences,is nevertheless but seldom fatal ; and hencethat the honor of proving specific in these casesis one of cheap acquisition. The Serpentaria grows in woods in the South-ern and Middle parts of the United States. Itbears cultivation in any part of the union, thoughthe most northerly situation, from which 1 havereceived wild specimens, is the vicinity of NewHaven, from which place some living plants weresent to me by Dr. Monson. The genus Aristolochia has a mon ope talons,tubular, crooked cor
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