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Essays and addresses" Geranium Columbinum perenne flore purpureo, Vulgo Core-Core. "This plant is admirable for relieving pains of the teeth: the Indians have the root boiled in ordinary water and when they have toothache, they rinse the mouth with it and feel themselves relieved at once; it also has the property of hardening the gums: that is the reason that those of advanced age make great use of it. I almost forgot our own Samuel Thomson, the founder of the last formal system of Medicine, the Thomsonian or Botanical School, which had great vogue in the second quarter of the last century and is not quite dead yet though I believe it no longer has a College. Thomson with all his fondness for Lobelia and Capsicum had his own share of good sound "horse sense" and if he did not cure many he saved many from being killed secundum artem by the Regulars For toothache, Thomson, or at least his followers, (for the copy of his little book in my possession printed at Hamilton, Canada West, in 1833, is silent on the matter) advised to "chew the Xanthoxylum or Tooth bark; a piece the size of the finger nail is sufficient at a time. Repeat till the pain ceases as effectual as anything of the stimulating kind or No. prev next |