Eupatorium Aromaticum

[WHITE SNAKE-BOOT. N A TUBAL OBDEB, COMPOSITE.]

Stem rough, downy and covered with short soft hair, corymbous at the summit. The leaves are petiolate, opposite, snbcorclate, lance- ovate, acute, three-veined, obtusely serrate, and smoothish : involucre simple, of about twelve lance-linear pubescent scales. A handsome species, growing in low woods, from Massachusetts to Louisiana. The whole plant is slightly pubescent, about two feet high.

The leaves are from two to four inches long, one-half as wide, on petioles less than an inch long. The heads of the flowers are large, ten- to fifteen-flowered, white and aromatic, in small corymbs. The scales are about equal. Blossoms in August and September.

(Wood.)

APHTHA AND STOMATITIS— The white snake-root has been

used for aphthae and stomatitis. The late Dr. B. L. Hill was the

first to recommend this practice. In the absence of provings, it has

been used empirically, but with good success, by many physicians.

A babe of two weeks old, had aphthous stomatitis. The end of the tongue was red; papillae swelled; eruption on the cheeks, like prickly heat, also papillary; the roof of the mouth, tongue and the inner cheek were studded with aphthous white spots ; there was much worrying and fretting, especially in the morning and evening; sensitive to impressions. Eupatorium aromaticum1 every three hours, cured at once. (Topically, white sugar, moistened with water, was used.) (Dr.

J. C. Morgan in Am. Jozir. of Horn.

Mat. Med., March, 1873.)

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