observed among children labouring under that complaint, and should recommend the changing, from the city to the country, children thus afflicted with this dangerous complaint. This plant is perennial, and has a fibrous root, from whence spring single stems beset with opposite oval lancelot entire leaves, and crowned with a spike of tubelar monopetalous red flowers, having five stamina and one pestil, each flower is succeeded by two round united by valvula capsules containing several small seed. HISTORY. This plant I found plentifully in West-Florida and near the Natches, and grows in other parts of the southern states. MEDICAL VIRTUES. It is a safe and effectual anthelmentic or worm destroying medicine in skillful hands. PREPARATION. Boil two ounces of dry pink-root, and an ounce of American sennea, in two quarts of rain water down to one strain the decoction, and give the child from two table-spoonsful to a tea-cup full every morning and night, sweetened with molasses, before both the full and change of the moon, according to their age. But my worm sirup I prefer before all other medicine for worms. (See worm sirup.) This plant rises half a foot or more in height: stalks purple leaves radical, oval, and three on each plant under these the nectaries appear, and the germina when ripe become berries of a bright scarlet colour. C HISTORY. It grows in meadows and swamps, along the sides of fences and old logs, in all parts of the United States, and flowers from July to August MEDICAL VIRTUES. This root when fresh, is a very acrid, pungent, strong and heating remedy. I have found it an excellent remedy in the following maladies: it promotes the watery excretions, quickens the circulation in cold phlegmatic habits and in diseases from viscid phlegm. PREPARATION. Take the fresh roots, wash them clean, take off the outward rind, cut them thin and dry them in a bake-pan, stiring them constantly to keep them from burning, and by being quickly exsicated it has its virtues preserved : pulverize them and after sifting the powder, put it in bottles well corked for use. In all lingering beginning consumptions, pain in the breast, weak appetite, and a slow circulation of the blood, use it as follows: take two ounces of the powder, one ounce of pulverized sugar candy, and half an ounce of the flower of sulphur; mix all the ingredients and let the patient take a tea-spoonful in molasses, or new milk, every morning fasting, and before dinner. It creates a good appetite, cures flatulent cholic, lowness of spirits, and excites cheerfulness. In all chronic deep seated rheumatic pains, debilitated habits, and loss of appetite, use the following conserve: take one pound of fresh arum or Indian turnip, washed clean, and the outward skin taken off, and three pounds of loaf sugar; beat them together in a mor tar, to a pulp take from half a tea-spoonful to a whole one, twice a day, fasting and before dinner. N. B. I am beholden to the Hon. Samuel L Mitchell, for the method of preparing the conserve, as is practised in the New-York hospital. This is a small bushy plant, and rises about eighteen inches in height, full of branches with few small leaves, deeply jagged on the edges, resembling the leaf of an oak, from whence it derives its name; which at the first are redish on the underside, and afterwards become of a yellowish green: |