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." ❋ Unknown (1863)
In advanced cases, when the fever had declined, he says he "used whiskey, Peruvian bark, serpentaria, chamomile, &c." ❋ Unknown (1924)
If the circulation was feeble I gave whiskey freely, and, occasionally camphor and serpentaria were used with happy effect. ❋ Unknown (1924)
It is said to be similar in properties to the A. serpentaria. ❋ Unknown (1863)
An aromatic, stimulant tonic and diaphoretic, "applicable in similar cases with serpentaria." ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ William Saunders (1861)
Virginian Snake-root (_Aristolochia serpentaria_) chewed, makes also an excellent poultice for wounds of this sort .... ❋ 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. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
That afternoon we stopped off at a Snake Garden - a serpentaria with over 50 snakes on display. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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 ❋ Various (N/A)
Some species of Aristolochia, such as the _A. serpentaria_ of North America, are supposed to act as specifics in the cure of snakebites; and the _A. indica_ is the plant to which the ichneumon is popularly believed to resort as an antidote when bitten [1]; but it is probable that the use of any particular plant by the snake-charmers is a pretence, or rather a delusion, the reptile being overpowered by the resolute action of the operator [2], and not by the influence of any secondary appliance. ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)
Some species of Aristolochia, such as the _A. serpentaria_ of North America, are supposed to act as a specific in the cure of snake-bites; and the _A. indica_ is the plant to which the ichneumon is popularly believed to resort as an antidote when bitten [1]; but it is probable that the use of any particular plant by the snake-charmers is a pretence, or rather a delusion, the reptile being overpowered by the resolute action of the operator, and not by the influence of any secondary appliance, the confidence inspired by the supposed talisman enabling its possessor to address himself fearlessly to his task, and thus to effect, by determination and will, what is popularly believed to be the result of charms and stupefaction. ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)
