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Gelsemium sempervirens gels Gelsemium Semprevirens is a yellow-flowering plant indigenous to the South. It is an evergreen, and puts forth its fragrant flowers among the earliest in spring. It is

Fluoric acid fl-ac This is a highly excoriating acid, eating as you know even into glass. It is to be particularly remembered from its action on the bones and on

Ferrum metallicum ferr Ferrum has two complements, CINCHONA or CHINA, and ALUMINA. Ferrum and Alumina are complementary in chlorosis; and Ferrum and Cinchona in ansemia from loss of animal fluids. Now the best antidote

Euphrasia officinalis eupr Euphrasia is particularly of use to us as a medicine acting on mucous membranes, especially the conjunctiva and the nasal mucous membrane. It has long been known

Eupatorium perfoliatum eup-per or the bone-set, is a popular remedy in malarial districts for chills and fever. In this disease it is indicated by the following symptoms: The chill begins

Dulcamara dulc Dulcamara, or the “bitter-sweet,” contains a small quantity of Solanine, a much smaller quantity in fact than any other member of the group. The tender leaves and twigs

Digitalis purpurea dig DIGITALIS contains among other ingredients two substances, one known as DIGITALIN, the other as DIGITOXIN. The latter is found in larger quantity than the former. DIGITALIN has been proved separately from the