Trifolium Repens

( While Glffner.) Preparation.— Tincture of the flower heads. Dr. Douglass took a tritu.

ration of the flowers, one part to sis. of sac. lacljs; the effects were bo speedy

aud marked that six other persons took it, with substantially the same results

in a few minutes.

A feeling of fulness and congestion of all the salivary glands ; in some instances amounting to decided discomfort, and even pain, quickly followed by increased, sometimes copious flow of saliva. One of the provera placet! her hands on the parotid gland and said she felt just as if an attack of mumps were coming on.

TUBNEKA APERODISIAOA.

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Description It belongs to the natural order of Tnrneraceie. The genus Turnera is a small family of ohiefly tropical American plants allied to the Passifloraceie. The Bowers are small, yellow, subaeasile near the end of the small branches.

Turnera aphrodisiaca, as found in the market, consists of broken leaves mixed with fragments of the branches, and sometimes with seed- pods. The branches have a reddish-brown hark, and are covered, when young;, with white, cottony hairs. The leaves are less than an inch long, obovate, wedge-shape, and taper at the base to a short, slender leaf-stalk ; when young they are covered with a slight pubescence, but become smooth when old.

Pkepabation. — Tincture of the plant.

(No Proving.) ° Paresis of the genital organs of both sexes. ° Partial impotence. Sexual debility, chiefly from nervous pros- tration.

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° Sexual neurnRtheiiia. ° Inoontinence of urine in old people. ° Atonic sperm atorrhcea, " Chronic prostatic discharges.

It seems to be an analogue of HeJonias Aletris, Strychnia, Phos- phoric acid and the Hypophosphites.