PREPARATION.

Pour a quart of boiling water on an handful of the dry flowers, and after the patient has taken a dose of sal glauber, he may take a tea-cup full of this aromatic tea four times a day, which will promote perspiration, cause free circulation of the blood, and helps the urinary discharge. In rheumatic complaints and cutaneous eruptions, use the following preparation take of the bark of sassafras root two ounces, American sarsaparilla four ounces, and lignum vitea chips two ounces; boil all the ingredients in six quarts of water down to three, and strain the decoction: dose, half a pint three times a day, and at bed time, for one week.

SAVIN.

SABINA.

DESCRIPTION.

The leaves of this plant are numerous, firm, pointed, inverting the younger branches: flowers inconspicuous, producing a blackish purple berry,

HISTORY.

It grows near rivers and sides of roads, in NewJersey, &c. flowers in June.

MEDICAL VIRTUES.

Savin is a most powerful and dangerous em menagogue in unskilful hands, as it is of a very acrid and heating substance, and shows a more powerful determination to the uterus than any other plant except the pappoose root, and ought

never to be made use of by pregnant women, or women of a plethoric or full habit.

PREPARATION.

The powder of the dry leaves must be kept in a bottle, and used as follows: in order to promote the menses in weakly women, give a tea-spoonful of the powder, daily twice a day, in a tea-cup full of penny-royal tea, at the usual time of the moon, and set over the fume of motherwort, tansy, catnip, &c. every night till they come down. Venereal warts are destroyed by sprinkling the powder on them twice a day.

By the following preparation I make the fine green savin ointment: take one pound of hog's lard, and after it is melted stir in the powder of the leaves until it becomes of the consistence of an ointment. This is an excellent drawing ointment for issues and perpetual blisters, far better than that which is made by boiling the leaves in the fat. The extract made into pills, of the size of a pea, may be taken from six to ten or twenty, every night, in obstructed menses.

The bay tree is the crown of victory among poets, and the emblem of peace with conquerors, it never rises with a stem, but sends forth many radical shoots the leaves are smooth, often waved at the margin, of a shining green, and stand erect upon short foot-stalks: the flowers appear in clusters, and the flower-stalks proceed from the ale of the leaves the corolla is cut into four upright oval segments, of a yellowish white colour, succeeded by an oval berry.

HISTORY.

This beautiful tree grows in abundance in the state of Kentucky, near the river Mississippi, &c.

MEDICAL VIRTUES.

Both the leaves and berries contain a considerable quantity of essential stimulating aromatic green oil, which will cure the herpes, itch, and cutaneous eruptions, by anointing the parts every night.

SWEET CICELY.

MYRRBIS.

DESCRIPTION.

This plant rises from two to three feet in height: leaves small, heart shaped, numerous and on long stalks: flowers small and of a pale white colour.