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Physician's Materia Medica on Wafer Ash
WAFER ASH
The bark of the root of PTELEA TRIFOLIATA. Lin. A bitter tonic. peculiarly acceptable to an irritable stomach, with marked analgesic properties; stomachic. antiperiodic. Especially useful in convalescence from acute diseases where digestion is enfeebled.1
The bark of the root of PTELEA TRIFOLIATA. Lin. A bitter tonic. peculiarly acceptable to an irritable stomach, with marked analgesic properties; stomachic. antiperiodic. Especially useful in convalescence from acute diseases where digestion is enfeebled.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.