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Title: A plain system of medical practice, adapted to the use of families
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Bright, John W
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Louisville, Ky. : Morton & Griswold
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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le in all cases where veg-etable astringents are proper. The decoction may be preparedby boiling an ounce of the smaller roots, or of the bark of thelarger, in a pint and a* half of water, down to one pint. A smallwine-glassful may be taken frequently in the day. A cordialmade of the ripe fruit is also good for children in the above dis-eases. It may be taken, in dessert spoonful doses, three or fourtimes a day. SIRUP OF GREEN PERSIMMONS. Green Persimmons, fully grown, one pound. Bruise them well; add water, half a gallon. Boil slowly forthirty minutes, and, when cool, strain through flannel. Thenadd one pound of white sugar, and boil down slowly to a thicksirup. From fifteen to thirty drops is a dose for an infant fromsix months to a year old. It is given in diarrhoea, after thestomach is cleansed. The dose should be repeated every timethe child purges, till the stools are not more frequent than theyshould be in the twenty-four hours. It is safe and valuable. BRI«HT. 56 BLACK ALDEB.
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BLACK ALDER. Prinos. The black alder grows in all parts of the United States, fromCanada to Florida, and is found most frequently in low, wetplaces, such as swamps, ponds, ditches, and on streams. Theflowers are small, white, nearly sessile, and grow three or fourtogether at the axils of the leaves. The fruit, when ripe, con-sists of glossy, scarlet, roundish berries, about the size of a pea.containing six seeds in separate cells. Severa. of these berriesare clustered together on different parts of the limbs. They stillremain on the stem after the leaves have fallen, giving the POPPY CAPSULES. BLACK PEPPER. 867 shrub a striking and beautiful appearance; hence it is called bysome, winter-berry. Medical properties and uses. —The berries have a bitterishand somewhat acrid taste, and are sometimes used medicinally,in place of the bark; but the bark is the proper medicinal partof the shrub. It is tonic and astringent, and was once thoughtto be a substitute for the Peruvian bark; but this

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