Rhus Glabra

(Gomm&n Sutnadi.) Botanical DntscmPriON. — Khus glabmm (or smooth sumach), la a Blirab from sis to fifteen feet high, consisting of many straggling, glahrous branchea, covered with a pale, graj hark, having often a reddisii tint.

The leanm are alternate, odd-pinnate, and consisting of from six to fifteen leaflets, about three inches long and one-fourth as wide, lanceolate, acum- inate, acutely serrate, shining and green above, whitiBh beneath, seaaile, except sometimes the terminal odd one; during the fall they become red. T\ie fiowera are green isli-red, and arranged in terminal, thyrsoid, dense panicles. Onlyx of three sepals united at base; petaU five; atamern five; inserted into the edge or between the lobea of a flattened disk in the bok torn of the calyx; etyU» three; itigmai capitate.

Fruit, a small red drupe, hanging in clusters, and when ripe covered ■with a crimson down, which is extremely sour to the taste, owing to the presence of malic acid in combination with lime. Opficinal Preparations. — Tincture of Ihe bark or leaves; dilutions, [A tincture of the berries should be proTeu. [Hale. )] Analooues. — Aci^^mgallieum, Anidvm tanniewm, Alnui, Baptiaia, Boraa, China, Oeranium, Qalium, Samomelis, Hydrastis, Myrica.

Mental Sphere. Weakness of" memory, with rniich indifference to snrronnding objects.

He cures with the 1st, the 200th and 1,000th;, and says, " It differs materially in its symptoms from. SiUcia and GelsemitiMTn.")

* Hemorrhage from the mouth.

* On waking, clots of blood are expelled from the throat.,

* Small ulcers in the mouth.

" Nursing sore mouth; aphthous stomatitis.

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546 RHOS VENENATA.

" Sea-scurvy, and scorbutic affections generally.

Scanty, liigh-eolored urine.

Skin liot and dry, with thirst, * Profuse night sweats. Feeling of coldness, while there is aii actual increase of heat

in the skin. ° Some of the conditions of iyphoid fever, diarrhtea, scurvy,

etc. " Hectic fever, with night sweats.