The family physician, the household companion : being a treatise, in plain language, on the art of preserving health and prolonging life; a description of all the diseases of men, women & children, with the most approved and latest curative treatment. Prepared for the use of families / by M. Lafayette Bryn.

  • Byrn, M. Lafayette (Marcus Lafayette), 1826-1903
Date:
1868, ©1867
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Credit: The family physician, the household companion : being a treatise, in plain language, on the art of preserving health and prolonging life; a description of all the diseases of men, women & children, with the most approved and latest curative treatment. Prepared for the use of families / by M. Lafayette Bryn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    Aralia Itacemosa, or Common Spikenard. (the root.) This grows in deep woods and good soils, from ]Sew England to the far South and West. The root is a healing pectoral, stimu- lant cordial, and causing gentle perspiration. It is much used by the Indians ; the roots bruised, chewed, or pulverized is used by them in all kinds of sores, bruises, and ulcers. In cough? and colds the root may be used freely, boiled in syrup; or it may be used as a tea, cold, mixed with flaxseed-tea, lemonade. or toast-water, when the cough is troublesome. A little piece of the root chewed and the juice swallowed is also beneficial in allaying a tickling cough.