COLLECTIONS FOR AN ESSAY TOWARDS A MATERIA MEDICA OF THE UNITED STATES
ABIES CANADENSIS 1 BALSAM TOLU 75 CAESALPINIA BONDUCELLA 87 DATURA STRAMONIUM 166 ECBALLIUM ELATERIUM 178 FABIANA IMBRICATA 215 GALIUM APARINE 222 HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA 243 IBERIS AMARA 262 JATEORRHIZA PALMATA 267 KALMIA LATIFOLIA 271 LEONURUS CARDIACA 272 MAGNOLIA GLAUCA 291 OENANTHE CROCATA 307 PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUM 312 QUASSIA AMARA 367 CASCARA SAGRADA 369 SALIX ALBA 384 TARAXACUM 430 URTICA DIOICA 446 VALERIANA OFFICINALIS 448 XANTHIUM SPINOSUM 465 ZANTHOXYLUM AMERICANUM ZANTHOXYLUM CLAVA HERCULIS 466 CONTENTS ABIES ABIES CANADENSIS SYNONYM HEMLOCK SPRUCE CONSTITUENTS TANNIC ACID RESIN VOLATILE OIL CANADA PITCH OR GUM HEMLOCK IS THE PREPARED CONCRETE JUICE OF THE PINUS CANADENSIS THE JUICE EXUDES FROM THE TREE AND IS COLLECTED BY BOILING THE BARK IN WATER OR BOILING THE HEMLOCK KNOTS WHICH ARE RICH IN RESIN IT IS COMPOSED OF ONE OR MORE RESINS AND A MINUTE QUANTITY OF VOLATILE OIL CANADA PITCH OF COMMERCE IS IN REDDISH BROWN BRITTLE MASSES OF A FAINT ODOR AND SLIGHT TASTE OIL OF HEMLOCK IS OBTAINED BY DISTILLING THE BRANCHES WITH WATER IT IS A VOLATILE LIQUID HAVING A TEREBINTHINATE ODOR AND TASTE PREPARATIONS CANADA PITCH PLASTER TINCTURE OF THE FRESH HEMLOCK BOUGHS TINCTURE OF THE FRESH INNER BARK SPECIFIC MEDICINE PINUS DOSE FROM FIVE TO SIXTY MINIMS THE HEMLOCK SPRUCE PRODUCES THREE MEDICINES THE GUM USED IN THE FORM OF A PLASTER AS A RUBIFACIENT IN RHEUMATISM AND KINDRED COMPLAINTS THE VOLATILE OIL OIL OF HEMLOCK OR A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH BOUGHS USED AS A DIURETIC IN DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS AND WHEREVER A TEREBINTHINATE REMEDY IS INDICATED AND A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH INNER BARK AN ASTRINGENT WITH SPECIFIC PROPERTIES USED LOCALLY AND INTERNALLY IN CATARRH THERAPY GASTRIC IRRITATION AND VOMITING IN CHOLERA MORBUS LEUCORRHEA PROLAPSUS UTERI CHRONIC DIARRHEA AND DYSENTERY IRRITATION OF THE URINARY ORGANS CROUP RHEUMATISM ECZEMA ASTHENIC CATARRHAL CONDITIONS WITH FEEBLE DIGESTION AND PALLID MUCOUS MEMBRANES PROFUSE BRONCHIAL SECRETION A TINCTURE FROM THE FRESH BOUGHS OR THE OIL IS A DIAPHORETIC AND DIURETIC AND MAY BE EMPLOYED INTERNALLY AND AS A MEDICATED VAPOR BATH IN RHEUMATISM PLEURISY ORCHITIS FROM MUMPS PERITONITIS AND ALL INFLAMMATIONS CAUSED BY COLD INTERNALLY IT MAY BE GIVEN IN THE GASTRIC IRRITATION OF CHOLERA MOR BUS AND IN IRRITATION OF THE URINARY ORGANS THE 1 OIL FULL STRENGTH MAY BE APPLIED WITH ADVANTAGE TO ALL SPRAINS AND BRUISES AND TO LUMBAGO RHEUMATISM AND SCIATICA ALSO IN HERPES MOIST ECZEMA FEVERS AND PSORIASIS IT IS ALSO A GOOD STIMULATING EXPECTORANT IN CHRONIC BRONCHITIS AND CHRONIC COUGHS A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH INNER BARK OF THE HEMLOCK MAY BE EMPLOYED IN OBSTINATE LEUCORRHEA DILUTED WITH TWO PARTS OF WATER BEING APPLIED TO THE VAGINA ON COTTON AT INTERVALS OF SEVERAL HOURS TO SECURE A CONTINUOUS EFFECT CATECHU ACACIA CATECHU SYNONYM TERRA JAPONICA CONSTITUENTS CATECHU TANNIC ACID CATECHIN QUERCETIN CATECHU RED GUM PREPARATLONS TINCTURA CATECHU COMPOSITA COMPOUND TINCTURE OF CATECHU DOSE FROM TEN TO FORTY MINIMS THERAPY A TONIC ASTRINGENT INDICATED IN DIARRHEAS WHERE THE DISCHARGES ARE SEROUS VERY WATERY IN CHARACTER LARGE FLUID DISCHARGES WITH MUCUS IT WILL RELIEVE INTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WHEN THE ABOVE DIARRHEAS ARE PRESENT AND THE MUCOUS MEMBRANES ARE RELAXED AND OUT OF TONE IF COMBINED WITH STIMULANT TONICS OR AROMATICS IT IS MORE SERVICEABLE WITH SPECIAL UTERINE TONICS IT WILL BE FOUND ADVANTAGEOUS IN MENORRHAGIA ACHILLEA ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM SYNONYM YARROW CONSTITUENTS ACHILLEIN VOLATILE OIL TANNIN ACHILLEIC ACID PREPARATIONS SPECIFIC ACHILLEA DOSE FROM FIVE TO SIXTY MINIMS SPECIFIC SYMPTOMATOLOGY THE FOLLOWING INDICATIONS WILL GUIDE IN THE SELECTION OF THIS REMEDY HOT DRY BURNING SKIN AT THE BEGINNING OF ACUTE ASTHENIC FEVERS WITH SUPPRESSED SECRETION DEFICIENT RENAL ACTION WITH 2 COLLECTIONS FOR AN ESSAY TOWARDS A MATERIA MEDICA VESICAL RENAL OR URETHRAL IRRITATION ACUTE OR CHRONIC BRIGHT S DISEASE IN ITS INCIPIENT STAGE LEUCORRHEA WITH RELAXED VAGINAL WALLS MENORRHAGIA AND AMENORRHEA HEMORRHOIDS WITH BLOODY DISCHARGE ATONIC GASTRIC AND INTESTINAL DYSPEPSIA PASSIVE HEMORRHAGES OF SPECIFIC ACHILLEA THE DOSE IS FROM FIVE TO TEN MINIMS THERAPY WHILE THE PROFESSION HAS USED YARROW BUT LITTLE WE FIND AN INDIVIDUAL PHYSICIAN OCCASIONALLY WHO DEPENDS UPON IT FOR SONIC VERY IMPORTANT CONDITIONS DR LAKIN OF ENGLAND USES IT IN HEMATURIA HE CLAIMS THAT IT IS GOOD IN ALL FORMS OF PASSIVE HEMORRHAGE WHETHER OF THE LUNGS OR OF THE KIDNEYS OR UTERINE HEMORRHAGE YARROW IS ADVISED BY WEBSTER IN UTERINE HEMORRHAGE IT IS A MILD ASTRINGENT PROBABLY ACTING ALSO AS A TONIC IT IS USEFUL IN PASSIVE HEMORRHAGE WHEN NOT PERSISTENT IN CHARACTER IT IS A BENEFICIAL REMEDY IN DISEASES OF THE MUCOUS SURFACES RELIEVING IRRITATION AND PROFUSE SECRETION IT SOOTHES INTESTINAL IRRITATION AND OVERCOMES MILD FORMS OF DIARRHEA IT IS OF BENEFIT IN IMPROVING THE TONE OF THE URINARY APPARATUS RELIEVING IRRITATION OVERCOMING STRANGURY AND SUPPRESSION OF THE URINE IT ACTS BEST IN STRONG INFUSION AND ITS USE MUST BE PERSISTED IN IN GENERAL RELAXED CONDITIONS IT IS A CURE FOR LEUCORRHEA WHERE THERE IS A PROFUSE DISCHARGE OR THICK HEAVY MUCUS FROM ENFEEBLED MUCOUS MEMBRANES DR JOHN FEARN OF OAKLAND CALIFORNIA CLAIMS THAT IT HAS BUT FEW SUPERIORS IN ITS INFLUENCE UPON THE SKIN HE SAYS IT HAS A STIMULATING ACTION WHICH WILL BE A REVELATION TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT USED IT IT CAUSES THE SUDORIFEROUS GLANDS TO LITERALLY POUR OUT THEIR SECRETIONS AND WITH BUT LITTLE DEPRESSION HE CLAIMS THAT IT WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF PILOCARPINE WITH LESS UNPLEASANT RESULTS AND NO DANGER IN FEVERS HE SAYS ESPECIALLY OF THE STHENIC TYPE WHEN WE DESIRE TO AROUSE THE SKIN NOTHING CAN SURPASS THIS REMEDY THE PATIENT IS COVERED WARMLY IN BED AND A HOT INFUSION OF YARROW IS GIVEN IN FREQUENT DOSES WHEN THE SKIN BEGINS TO SOFTEN THE MEDICINE IS CONTINUED BUT IN LESS DOSES IF THERE ARE EVIDENCES OF AUTOINFECTION FROM RETAINED SECRETION A LITTLE CAPSICUM CAN BE ADDED TO THE INFUSION IN CASES OF SEVERE FEVER IN THE FIRST STAGE INTERMITTENT OR BILIOUS FEVER IT WILL CAUSE THE SECRETIONS TO BE POURED OUT SO FREELY AS TO DISCOLOR THE BED CLOTHES 3 COLLECTIONS FOR AN ESSAY TOWARDS A MATERIA MEDICA