(Prepare the tincture by taking a portion of the best powdered root and mixing one grain of it with twenty drops of alcohol, shaking the mixture several times a day for five or six days, keeping it in a room which has the usual temperature, and then pouring the solution off.) For the last thousand years since this root had been made known by the Arabians, it has been used in the most absurd manner for the purpose of sweeping out the intestinal canal or ' Alternate symptom of 959. RHEUM. 65 of arresting certain kinds of diarrhoea, but even the latter rarely with any success. This abuse of the rhubarb ought to be attributed to the fact that the homoeopathic law of cure has never been systematically followed in the treatment of disease. The following symptoms show that rheum must be very useful in many of the ordinary diseases of children. One drop of the ninth potency is quite sufficient at a dose.