serpentaria

Sir John Pringle says that several bitters, such as serpentaria, chamomile, or Peruvian bark, exceed salt, he inferred, one-hundred and twenty times -- "flesh remaining long untainted when immersed in their infusions; camphor is more powerful than anything else."

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

In advanced cases, when the fever had declined, he says he "used whiskey, Peruvian bark, serpentaria, chamomile, &c."

A History of Caroline County, Virginia 1924

If the circulation was feeble I gave whiskey freely, and, occasionally camphor and serpentaria were used with happy effect.

A History of Caroline County, Virginia 1924

It is said to be similar in properties to the A. serpentaria.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

An aromatic, stimulant tonic and diaphoretic, "applicable in similar cases with serpentaria."

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

Even some of our native species, such as _A. serpentaria_, is known as snake-root, and is said to be esteemed for curing the bite of the rattlesnake.

Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861

Virginian Snake-root (_Aristolochia serpentaria_) chewed, makes also an excellent poultice for wounds of this sort ....

Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

In after years, however, I was enabled to classify his "charm," which was no other than the _Aristolochia serpentaria_ -- a species closely allied to the "bejuco de guaco," that alexipharmic rendered so celebrated by the pens of Mutis and Humboldt.

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

That afternoon we stopped off at a Snake Garden - a serpentaria with over 50 snakes on display.

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Without test or antidote, terror has led to blind, fanatical empiricism, necessarily attended with no little injury in the search for specifics, and it may be reasonably asserted that no substance can be named so inert and worthless as not to have been recommended, or so disgusting as not to have been employed; nor is any practice too absurd to find favor and adherents even among the most enlightened of the medical profession, who have rung all the changes of the therapeutical gamut from serpentaria [3] and boneset to guaco, cimicifugia, and _Aristolochia

Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various