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Identifier: 101485230.nlm.nih.gov
Title: The American practice condensed, or The family physician : being the scientific system of medicine ...
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Beach, W. (Wooster), 1794-1868 Beach, W. (Wooster), 1794-1868. American practice of medicine
Subjects: Medicine Therapeutics Materia Medica
Publisher: New York : Published and for sale by James M'Alister
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internally. It may beadministered in the form of powder, tea, or syrup. No. 103. Blue Flag. (Iris Versicolor.) The Root.Common Name.—Blue Flag. Locality.—Found throughout the United States, on the borders ofswamps and in wet meadows ; flowering in June. Qualities.—The root has a nauseous taste, and when held in the mouth,imparts a powerful sense of heat and acrimony to the fauces. The mostactive constituent, says Bigelow, « appears to be a resin, which precipitatesm tne form of a white powder, when water is added to the alcoholic solution Properties.—Dr. Woodruff informs me that this root is very valuablein several diseases Given in doses of six or eight grains, night and morningit proves gently laxative, and eradicates the most inveterate taint of thesystem. It is excellent in venereal and hepatic affections, fluor ulbus, &c.It forms the basis ot Smiths anti-mercurial syrup, which is given andrecommended for syphfTitic and many other complaints. It is hio-hly m 3* 3 c c?
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