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Show ety — \ ier = Aloeras Pad 080 GREATER BISTORT, OR SNAKEWEED. MEDICAL VIRTUE. Dr. Cullen observes, that the bistorta, ** both by its sensible qualities, and by the colourit gives with green vitriol, and by the extracts it affords, seems to be one of the strongest of our vegetable astringents, andis justly commended for every virtue that has been ascribed to anyother. As such we have frequently employed it, and particularly in intermittent fevers, and in largerdoses than those commonly mentioned in Materi a Medica writers. Bothby itself, and along with gentian, we have given it to the quantity of three drachms a day.” The dose of the root in substance is froma scruple to a drachm. The great Boerhaave recommends “a decoction of it, or the tincture, for fixing of loose teeth, diabetes, a too abundant fe. male relief, in passing of blood by anyoutlet, vomiting, diarrhoea, and to prevent miscarriages. He says that the bistort and tormentil root have an equal claim to astringency, and there. fore equal virtues.” *¢ Hee planta a virtute adstringente laudatur quam maximé ita, ut nullum medicamentum scopo adstringente prescrib atur, quin ingrediatur bistorte et tormentille radix, que pari passu ambulant, sic ut hic habeamus maximumroborans et adstring ens, ita ut in omni morbo, ubi statim rhabarbarum et herbamp atientie laudavi quoad partem adstringentem, conveniat; si verd cum aceto vel vino coquatur, tum hoc decoctumest optimum ad dentes vacillantes lavandos, et hoc modo dentis torment a a Jaxitate curantur, si decoctum ad locum accedere possit: hinc in omni morbo conyenit, ubi nimia fibrarum laxitas adest, ut in CAMPHOR TREE, LAURUS CAMPHORA. Class IX. Enneandria. Order I. Monogynia. Essent, Gen, Cuar. Calyx none: Corolla calcyne, six-parted: Nectarg glandular, three tubercles, terminating inbristl y points, surrounding the _Sermen: Interior Filament glanduliferous : Drupe one-seeded. SPEC. CHAR, diabete humorum, in hemorrhagiis, in fluxu mensiu m nimio, mictu sanguineo,in vomitu, diarrhoea et precavendo abortu. ” Leaves lanceolate-ovate. ei NY DESCRIPTION. | HIS tree 8tows to a considerable height. Leaves ovate, lanie- shaped, entire, smooth, nerved, on the upper side ofa pale yellowish gr fen, on Stalks, the under glaucous, standing upon long fvot- The flowers are small, white, on long footstalks, pro- ceeding from the ale of the leaves. No calyx. “omposed of six ovate, concave, unequal petals. E The corollais HISTOR ¥. The camphor laurel growsin great abundance, and to a very “ousiderable size, in the forests of Japan. Sreen-houses j st Tongly of campJ h J il and roct, by distillatior It is ni |