NOTICE. As many medicines have many names, references are made, in this Materia Medica, from one appellation to another. Such articles only as have been used by the Author, are introduced herein, for the purpose of explaining their substance, locality, whence procured, the Classes under which they were administered, and the diseases in which the Eastern doctors generally use them, with the additional notice of a few of the recently introduced medicaments, merely to gratify the curiosity of the general reader. The Plants marked with * are indigenous of the British Isles. The three Classes of medicines are marked (1.) (11.) (11.) and one of these marks is annexed to every tested medicine. The diseases following these numbers are extracted from the foregoing Medical part. For further particulars the reader is referred to the pages whence the Extracts have been taken. As a good thing can hardly be too often noticed, those medicines are repeatedly mentioned which particularly merit the attention of the reader. Nor hill, nor vale, as far as ship could go, ELMOSCHUS MOSCHATUS (HIBISCUS) is indigenous in stan; nevertheless, I could not procure the seeds in Lahore, ad to order them from Calcutta. In Arabia they are for giving a perfume to Coffee. The Hakims attribute d properties to them. Abelmosch. moschat. sem. (I.) RUS PRECATORIUS is a plant growing in the botanical ns of India, still better on the hills; it is therefore supposed t would vegetate in Europe in the open air. Its seeds, enin a pericarp, are of the size of small peas, exceedingly glossy, and of two colors, red and white, differing also in y; both are considered as stimulants. The Hakims rank hite ones, which are the stronger, with arsenic; and the ives of the Punjab use them in combination with other s to effect abortion, for which purpose they introduce them the womb as a suppository. The others, of a bright-scarlet for with a black spot, formerly employed for necklaces and rosaries, are said to be eaten like the seeds of other leguminous plants, in Egypt. Linnæus describes them as poisonous (probably he means the white ones) and Gmelin, on the authority of Sloane, NOTICE. As many medicines have many names, references are made, in this Materia Medica, from one appellation to another. Such articles only as have been used by the Author, are introduced herein, for the purpose of explaining their substance, locality, whence procured, the Classes under which they were administered, and the diseases in which the Eastern doctors generally use them, with the additional notice of a few of the recently introduced medicaments, merely to gratify the curiosity of the general reader. The Plants marked with * are indigenous of the British Isles. The three Classes of medicines are marked (1.) (11.) (11.) and one of these marks is annexed to every tested medicine. The diseases following these numbers are extracted from the foregoing Medical part. For further particulars the reader is referred to the pages whence the Extracts have been taken. As a good thing can hardly be too often noticed, those medicines are repeatedly mentioned which particularly merit the attention of the reader. ABELMOSCHUS MOSCHATUS (HIBISCUS) is indigenous in Hindostan; nevertheless, I could not procure the seeds in Lahore, and had to order them from Calcutta. In Arabia they are used for giving a perfume to Coffee. The Hakims attribute cordial properties to them. Abelmosch. moschat. sem. (I.) ABRUS PRECATORIUS is a plant growing in the botanical gardens of India, still better on the hills; it is therefore supposed that it would vegetate in Europe in the open air. Its seeds, enclosed in a pericarp, are of the size of small peas, exceedingly hard, glossy, and of two colors, red and white, differing also in quality; both are considered as stimulants. The Hakims rank the white ones, which are the stronger, with arsenic; and the Midwives of the Punjab use them in combination with other drugs to effect abortion, for which purpose they introduce them into the womb as a suppository. The others, of a bright-scarlet color with a black spot, formerly employed for necklaces and rosaries, are said to be eaten like the seeds of other leguminous plants, in Egypt. Linnæus describes them as poisonous (probably he means the white ones) and Gmelin, on the authority of Sloane, |