FLOWERING DOGWOOD-NEW ENGLAND BOXWOOD. (Floridus, flowery.).
Introduction
This small tree was well-known to our Indians, who used the bark for fever and colic. It possesses an action similar to that of Peruvian bark, as a stomachic and anti-periodic, and differs from it only in quantity of action.
It was first proved by Dr. G. H. Bute, in 1838.
Symptoms
It has been used in chronic malarial conditions, with dullness, drowsiness and great exhaustion during the paroxysms.
The chill (121) and the fever often begin in the back, and either of them may usher in the paroxysm.
During the apyrexia the patient is weak and is very apt to have diarrhoea.
Willard Ide Pierce, author of Plain Talks on Materia Medica (1911) and Repertory of Cough, Better and Worse (1907). Dr. Willard Ide Pierce was a Director and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Kent's post-graduate school in Philadelphia.