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 . n of the expressed juice,with red roses, to the regions of the heart, liver, and kidneys,represses heat and inflammation. The use of Lettuce should,however, be withheld from persons who expectorate blood, orhave any imperfection of the lungs. It is prepared, andsometimes used in the form of extract. Lettuce is esteemeda wholesome, aperient, bitter anodyne. LICOEICE.—(GhjcyrrUza gJalra.){Properties.)—Demulcent, Expecto
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 . n of the expressed juice,with red roses, to the regions of the heart, liver, and kidneys,represses heat and inflammation. The use of Lettuce should,however, be withheld from persons who expectorate blood, orhave any imperfection of the lungs. It is prepared, andsometimes used in the form of extract. Lettuce is esteemeda wholesome, aperient, bitter anodyne. LICOEICE.—(GhjcyrrUza gJalra.){Properties.)—Demulcent, Expectoeant, Pectoral. Medical Uses.—This root, boiled in pure water, with someof the herb maidenhair and figs, is of very good use in drycoughs, hoarseness, shortness of breath, asthmatic difficulties,and other affections of the chest and lungs. The extract orjuice of Licorice, with some of the white gum tragacanth,dissolved in rose-water.^ is also a very profitable medicine inhoarseness, wheezing respiration, etc. Infusions, or the ex-tract made from Licorice, which is called Spanish licorice,,afibrd likewise very commodious vehicles for the exhibitionof other Ctpripedixjm Pubescens, (Ladys-Slipper.] 10 MATERIA MEDICA. 91 LIFE-E YEEL ASTING.—(Gna^phalium polycepMum.)(Properties.)—Pectoeal, Sudorific, Tonic. Description.—This is a sweet scented, herbaceons plant,growing a foot or more in hight, and producing many headsof flowers, of a tawny color, which appear in Jnly andAugust. It is found about fields and woods, or in dry, sandygrounds. Medical Uses. — Persons affected with colds, coughs, orthreatened with fever, will derive much benefit from drink-ing a warm infusion or tea of this plant, as it is calculated tothrow off the disease, by determining to the surface throughperspiration. It is also useful in other affections of the chest,and in hemorrhages, diarrhea, or weakness of the bowels,strains, and internal injuries. LILY OF THE YKLLWi.—Convallaria ma
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