Cimicifuga racemosa, Ell. Synonyms , Actaea racemosa, Linn; Macrotys actaeoides, Raf.; Botroflus serpentaria, Raf. (Med. Flora). Nat. order , Ranunculaceae. Common names , Blacksnake root, Bugbane, Rattleweed. Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authorities. 1 , Dr. T. S. Garden, effects of "full doses," Amer. Med. Recorder, 1823 (from Wibmer); 2 , G. W. Mears, took an ounce of "saturated tincture" in two hours, in divided doses, Hempel's Mat. med., 2, 506; 3 , Chas. H. Burr, proving with fluid extract, 10 drops hourly for fourteen hours, then after twenty-four hours, 15 drops hourly for twelve hours, Inaug. Thesis, Hom. Med. Coll. of Penn., 1858 (from Hempel's Mat. Med., 2, 507); [Original not to be found.] 4 , Dr. H. M. Paine's provings, repeated doses of the tincture, 10 to 40 drops (five different provings), N. Am. J. of Hom., 3, 207; 5 , ibid., proving with the 6th dec. dil.; 6 , Mr. S., proving with tincture, 5 to 20 drops, ibid.; 7 , Mrs. A., proving with daily repeated doses of tincture, 10 to 20 drops, ibid.; 8 , Dr. L. B. Wells, proving with 1st dil. (first day 3 drops, third day 3 drops) ibid.; 9 , Dr. Luther Wells, proving with tincture, 102 drops in seven days, afterward 178 drops in eight days, afterwards 210 drops in seven days; 10 , résumé of provings of Drs. Hill and Douglass, N. Am. J. of Hom., 7, 450, "provings on forty men and six women, medical students, entirely ignorant of what they were taking;" [This résumé would seem to include much of Dr. Paine's provings, many of the groups of symptoms being identical in expression and sequence; Drs. Hill and Douglass furnish no details of dose, nor day-books -EDITOR.] 11 , Dr. Bacmeister's proving with half a teaspoonful of the tincture, Trans. Am. Inst. Hom., 1871; 12 , Mrs. L. B., ibid.; 13 , two girls took repeated doses of the 12th dil., ibid.; 14 , Mrs. L. B. took half a teaspoonful of tincture, ibid.; 15 , Mr. W. took 10 drops of tincture every four hours, Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1872; 16 , Cooper, effects of 1st dec. taken ten days, in a woman of 35, who had not menstruated for fifteen years, M. H. R., 15, 179; 17 , Garrison, poisoning of a pregnant woman by 1 drachm of Squibb's fl. ext., Br. and F. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1869; 18 , Chapman, effects, Elem. of Therap., 1, 357 (1831); 19 , Davis, effects of large doses, Trans. Am. Med. Assoc., 1, 352; 20 , Young, effects of a teaspoonful three times a day for chorea, Am. J. of Med. Sc., 9, 313.