The sun., 1894-05-13
ROOTS AND @YARBS!s
oBD-F<sHIoEED FOLKS WHO TRUsE
TO THE sTMFLEsT REMEDLRa

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Several large wholesale drus houses devn
town nnd It worth while to keep In stock
large assortment ofherbs for modical use. and
at least one such house more than ifty years
In existence. deals In such articles alone.
These houses supply druggists all over the
East with the raw materials OF which many
standard medicines are made, and with the
traditional herbs, roots, and barks OF our
Rrandmothcrs. The trade In these thinGs
even In this city is large. and they are sold
wherever household remedies still have
place OF honor. spy.
ono OF these wholesale houses Issues esoa,
loRue that is In some sort q rough fuide 70 the
art aud mystery OF herb doctorinR. IL II these
remedies that compounded by the se-called
botanic druRRists. or botsnists." as they ere
sometimes styled. Many OF these remedies
are well-recoRnized medicines, unhesitatingir
prescribed by physicians OF scientific educs-
tion. and aomo such physicians still cling 70
inherited formulas and traditional herbs
Many Of tho botanic remedies come STRAIGHT
down from the days when monks. old women,
and all sorts OF odd housing folks. good and
bad. made 1t their business to study the prop
critics Of roots and herbs. Some must have
been borrowed OF the Indian medicine men,
and doubtless Roger Chillingworth gathered
In the Puritan graveyard many Of the "sim-
pies" TINT now figure in the catalogues OF the
these bsrbs are a. Ieas. a az % ol,l @ ss c,.isn and
.coro. =, ,h.n, =, s,,a - .sn.,,s,.. ,s,..nss
s,ores Oh mem en- nave run ior eentuties tnrousn
history and literature. Tho Wholesale botanic
drupplsts ara redolent n, THAR s,ock IN trada-
Nearly five hundred horbs. roots. seeds. fiow-
ers and barks are kept in stock by tho largest
botanic druggists. and new remedies are stili
thus kept are not only those known to Ii.
pies Of standard drugs. nearly ever, familiar
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root slippery elm and sInsius saa Of tho tho or.SOdos
materia medica must be kept on hand. but a.
well hundreds Of others known 70 those deeply
read In the science Of simples.
Favorito flowers and famous plants take
,oies 10 s.range,y un'amiliar 70 tnose uniearned
and dyspepsia. Thistle tea streusthon. the
oy oos
u's,s, Uue s. y. ano.e, .,",' 'o sVou ~. pec'o
"excellont for dropsy." doubtless upou th.
bom1onatbio nrincinlo Tha vhit. wiiIov 4.
substitute for Peruvian bark. The wild sun
ilower 10 set down as invaluable In bilious
collie" 20; sna lisS e., eomps!s,s sweet clover !.
table delicacy. furnishes In It's leaves a remedy
for sore throat. and In its wandering stem 9
cure for jaundice and feyers. Seven kinds Of
spops, root e6c iSs
scrofula. hives. croup, fevers. and some COM
plAints OF the stomach. 800. -.
sienincance is used to. mako an infusion Tor
seuryy. The familiar skunk cabbage, esIlisss
and most III SIN ellinR OF blossoms. is good for ,
hemorrhage OF tho lungs. coughs., and asthms."
medica. the iormer not for remembrsnoe as
according to Ophelia. but for nervous and
hysterical affections. Ophelia's rue. called
herb Of grace o. SundayA," plays the nm
hiccough, and disorders of tho stomach. /
Galen. according to the commentators OF
Shakespeare. ascribed somewhat different !
curative properties to rue. OphsliA's pansiss. ,
thoughts" but are " excellent for asthma. and /
good In colds and fevers."
Many plants are enumerated as having the .
properties Of qulpine IN greater OF lees dsgrss;
like doubles for other familiar dfugs. The |
number OF plants that cure rheumatism ts
marvellous. and there are moro than tvo
dosen remedies S for insipiens sonsumpton os
ouinine." Cedar apples, which Walt whitman
dtscourses upon as cedar plums4 arc useful
In conn mon complaint Of children. and cedar
berries S the aromatie \, and slightly sweet little
In tincturA or infusion for dropsy. -Four parts
or varieties OF the dogwoed are enumerated
as Of N 1odiSInal %h value; and as many fsrns are
worm. and the female fern is good for Ium-
bago aud coughs. -
All the old-fnshioned flowers and several
tn BILE Vegetables find place In the list OF rsme-
dies, The ladyslipper Is for the nerves. es-
peciaflY In hySteria and lnrk spur aead IA for