MEDICAL PRESCRIPTIONS.

No. 1.

The home Ipecacuanha, or Indian physic,is an emetic, but commonly operates also as a purge.It is always safe, if moderately taken. After dis-charging the bile, it leaves the stomach braced, sothat in the loweBt cases of debility, tonics (such asColumbo root or its preparations) may be takenafter it to advantage. Contrary to other physics,I have found that weakly persons, who were ofmere broken constitution, have become healthyand strong, only by taking this to vomit them onevery occasion.

This is my great pioneer to clear the way forother medicine, in all cases of oppression in thebreast, nausea, violent vomitings & fever in general.

To use it moderately—take a pugil, or what youcan grasp moderately with the thumb & fore-fingerof the green root, four inches long, or the like quan-tity of dry root, make it into a decoction (say halfa gill) and to a grown person give one third of it ata time every ten minutes, and if it does not workthere is no harm done; but I chuse to continue ituntil it does work up or down. Cool water may bedrank during its operation, only quench a coal in it,if you begin that way ; gruel may also be given, soas to keep something in the belly. Should its ope-ration be too fierce, a little laudanum may be ne-cessary; for if the dose of the ipecacuanha be toolarge, it is a lion, otherwise a lamb.

This Ipecacuanha is a very bitter root. In agood bunch the green root will frequently be asbig as a goose quill, is quirly and lumpy. Theroots adhere in all sizes to a common root. Thetop and leaf resemble a bunch of close set briars,but smooth. The sprout for the new growth very