Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 6 , from Dr. Downey's Thesis). 1 , Dr. William Downey, Inaugural Diss, "An Experimental Inquiry," etc., Philadelphia, 1803, two hours after breakfast took 20 grains of recent root; 1 a , same, took 8 grains of "the saponaceous or extractive matter;" 1 b , same, took 8 grains of the resin; 1 c , same, took 8 grains of leaves made into pills; 1 d , same, took 4 grains of extract obtained by decoction with water; 1 e , same, "having procured 2 drachms of immature seed-vessels and seeds, 6 ounces of water were boiled with them and evaporated to 2 ounces; of this I took 2 drachms, repeated after twenty minutes, and 3 drachms after forty-five minutes;" 2 , same, proving by Mr. Young, took 23 grains of powdered root made into pills with honey; 2 a , same, took 8 grains of aqueous extract; 3 , same, proving by Mr. Rees, took 8 grains of alcoholic extract of dried root; 4 , same, proving by Mr. Bartram, took 8 grains of gummous extract; 5 , same, proving of Mr. Pendergrast, who took 4 grains of powdered leaves; 6 , same, proving of Mr. Woolton, who took 5-drachm doses of the decoction; 7 , Dr. William Tully, Prize Essay (American Med. Recorder, Jan. 1828), effects of the continued use of the tincture; 7 a , same, in Bost. M. and S. Journ., 1832, 6, 243, general effects; 7 b , same, proving of Dr. Terry, who took a scruple of the Tartrate of san guinarin at once; 8 , Smith, Lond. Med. Trans., Vol. 1, general effects; 9 , Bird, Dissertation on Sanguinaria, N. Y., 1822, and other American authors, general effects. ( 10 to 15 , provings from Hering's Compilation, N. Archiv f. Hom., 2, 2, 114); 10 , Bute, effects of 1st dilution; 11 , proving by Dr. Freitag, "K.;" 12 , same, "K. &;" 13 , Jeanes, symptoms observed after expressing the juice; 14 , proving by Dr. Husemann with 6th dilution, "J. H.;" 15 , same, 6th dilution, "F. H.;" 16 , N. Y. Journ. of Commerce (Am. J. of Med. Sc., 1841, 2, 506), "three women and one man drank a large quantity of the tincture; all died the next day;" 17 , Dr. George D. Gibbs, Glasgow Med. Journ., 1860, p. 121, general effects; 18 , fatal effects in three women (compare No. 16 ); 19 , Dr. Tinker, Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1870, proving with tincture of dry root, 10 drops first and second days; 20 , Dr. B. Fincke, from "Compilation by Dr. A. K. Hills," N. Am. J. of Hom., N. S., 3, 359 (symptoms); 21 , Dr. M. McFarlan, symptoms (from Hills); 22 , Dr. Henry H. Pilling, Thesis, proving with tincture of fresh root, repeated doses for eighteen days, increasing from 5 to 150 drops; 22 a , same, "on the fifth day, after all effects had disappeared, took 200 drops of tincture;" 22 b , same, "three weeks later took tincture for fourteen days, repeated doses of 25 to 500 drops."