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DROPSY.

The following medicine is highly worthy the attention of practitioners of meIt has proved very successful in the hands of the faculty in this

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GEO. W. CARPENTER'S

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FLUID EXTRACT OF WHAHOO,

For the cure of Dropsical Affections, Anasarca, Hydrothorax and Ascites.

Geo. W. Carpenter, in a late tour through the western part of the United States, became acquainted with a valuable vegetable remedial agent, which is of great interest to the medical profession, and of immense importance to the community. The medicine is prepared from the Bark of the Whahoo, an indigenous shrub, growing to the height of 8 or 10 feet, in moist and shady places, particularly in shady woods, in various parts of the States of Indiana and Illinois. As the subscriber visited the country in the winter season, he is not at present able to give a description of its botanical character and habitudes so as to identify clearly the species; it resembles somewhat the Euonymus Carolinensis.

It was first employed by a regular physician who had been a long time a prisoner with the Indians. They gave it the name of Whahoo, and used it for the cure of general dropsies and some diseases of the lungs. G. W. Carpenter, aware of the great value of this medicine, and knowing the great importance of having it properly prepared, so as to extract all its medicinal properties, and to exhibit it in a concentrated state of uniform strength, has made a number of chemical and pharmaceutical experiments, to ascertain its proper menstruum for solution, and its chemical affinities, and, in accordance, has prepared a fluid extract, which contains all the medical properties of the Whahoo Bark in a concentrated state, &c., which he offers to the faculty as a valuable medicine for the cure of all dropsical affections.

A very distinguished physician in Indiana writes me, that in 20 years' practice he has never known it fail in curing Anasarca, unless there was some visceral disease that destroyed the patient without the aid of dropsy, and that he has cured a great many cases of Hydrothorax and Ascites with it. He also states that he has seldom failed to remove the ague cake or enlargement of the spleen, by persisting in its use for 3 or 4 months and uses it as a general alterative more than he does calomel, and finds that it operates as such much better, and with more certainty and safety to the patient.

The following letter was addressed to me by a very distinguished physician of Philadelphia, who has an extensive practice and great experience in his profession, and whose remarks are entitled to the highest degree of credit and importance.

"To Geo. W. Carpenter, Esq.

"SIR,-A ready compliance with your request to be informed of the opinion which the trials of the Whahoo Bark' in the treatment of dropsical affections, has enabled me to form, is due to you, who introduced the article to my notice. I shall perhaps satisfactorily answer your desire for information, by the transmission of an extract from my notes, contributory to a paper, upon the history and medical adaptations of this native curative agent, in which I propose to lay before the profession its claims to medical attention.

"It is hydragogue, cathartic and diuretic in its operation. Its primary effects are prompt and decided, and are distinguished from the effects of other articles of equal force and power, vegetable or chemical, belonging to this class