etics, none of which are agreeable to the stomach, and most of them very offensive to it. He further states that no circumstance had occurred within his own experience or information, to forbid its use in any form, or to limit the dose. Sir Walter Farquhar, states that he used the Pyrola, in the case of a lady laboring under ascites in which the diuretic effect of this plant were very striking. Dr. Barton, author of "The Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States," also corroborates the accounts of the diuretic effects of this vegetable, by four cases which came under his care at the Marine's Hospital, Philadelpia, in which a strong infusion was given with the most decided advantage. Dr. Bigelow says: "I have administered this plant on various occasions, and attended to its operation. In a number of dropsical cases, when first given, it made a distinct and evident impression on the disease, communicating an increased activity to the absorbents, followed by a great augmentation of the excretion from the kidneys; but," says he, "I found it better to omit the medicine for a time, and resume it afresh, than to continue until the system had become insensible to its stimulus." It has proved, in almost every case, a very acceptable medicine to the patient, and is prefered both for its sensible qualities and its effects on the stomach, to other diuretics and alteratives which have been prescribed. Dr. Mitchell, an American physician, relates many cases of its extraordinary success administered in fevers. We are told that the Indians administer a strong and warm decoction of this plant in rheumatism and fever; they employ the whole plant, and take it in large quantities. Many cases which have come under my own observation, in the treatment of patients, and where I have watched its effects, have satisfied me that the Pyrola umbellata possesses most highly valuable medical properties, especially in the treatment of dropsies, ulcers, tumors, scroffula, etc. As an external remedy, it has been used with success in various chronic indurated swellings.