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The Materia Medica.

the place of ipecacuanha in dyfentery, as mentioned by BouUduc and Kramer, more numerous and careful experiments arerequired to afcertain the ufe of a remedy fo afrtive

Guaiacum, Guaiacum, Guaiacam oßcinale^the Wood, Bark, and L. S. P.Gum-refin.

Gummi Tragacantha.See Tragacantha. -

Helleborafter,

Bearsfoot,

the Leaf.

H.

Helleborus fcetidus tL. S. P.

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Stinking Bearsfoot grows wild in many parts of England,—*in meadows, fhady places, and under hedges. The root isperennial, (Ray, Witbering,) fibrous, outwardly black,within whitifh, and of a bitter acrid tafle. (Murray fays theroot is biennial in the botanic garden, not perennial, dppar.Med. tom. 3.) Theftem is two or three feet high, round)hard, branched, with numerous leaves, (bird-footed—all ontheftem. Linn.) ort long pedicles, each fegment fomewhatoblong, ferrated, pointed, and of a deep green. They e-mit, when frefh, on being handled, a difagreeable fmell, andhave a bitterifh very acrid tafle, of which they lofe little bydrying. (Bergius.) The flowers which appear in April, and

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