Materia Medica of Hindoostan, and Artisan's and Agriculturist's Nomenclature..Printed at the Government Press, 1813 - 301 pages |
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Page 90 - A shrub or small tree, common in India ; the timber is only useful for the most common purposes. The leaves have a very unpleasant odour when pressed in the hand, but used by the natives in soups and curries, and a decoction of the leaves is used in colic and flatulence. The root has a somewhat warm and bitterish taste, an agreeable smell, and is prescribed in decoction as a gentle cordial and stomachic in fevers.
Page 72 - They are used in the West Indies as a substitute for ipecacuanha ; and the juice is considered by the native doctors of India as a valuable remedy in ophthalmia, dropt into the eye and over the tarsus ; also as a good application to chancres. It is purgative and deobstruent.
Page 14 - The British Mariner's Directory and guide to the trade and navigation of the Indian and China Seas .... With an account of the trade, mercantile habits, manners, and customs of the natives.
Page 75 - Hindoo doctors among those medicines which they conceive to possess virtues in altering and correcting the habit in cases of cachexia, and in old venereal complaints attended with anomalous symptoms.
Page 34 - Ind., /., 300) gives a long account of this medicine. He informs us that vegetarians prescribe an infusion of it, in conjunction with the lesser galangal and ginger, as a cordial and stimulant in lethargic cases, in palsy, and in certain stages of typhus fever, and that they also order it to be chewed as a masticatory for toothache. It certainly possesses powerful stimulant properties, but is scarcely ever employed in Europe as an internal remedy ; though it has been found useful as a sialagogue...
Page 294 - None of the drastic purges are more certain ; none so rapid in their action ; and none, I think, so little annoying by griping or nausea. " I found the dose of one grain very successful in cases of diseased spleen, where the patients were obliged to have their bowels daily emptied, an omission of this precaution being almost inevitably followed by a paroxysm of fever : by managing the exhibition of the medicine, so as to ensure its operation an hour or two before the time...
Page 293 - After having removed the shells from the seeds, tie the kernels in a small piece of cloth, like a bag ; then put this into as much...
Page 84 - ... with the addition of a little garlic. The juice of the same part of the plant, together with that of the tender shoots, is occasionally mixed with a small portion of margosa oil, and rubbed on the tongues of infants for the purpose of sickening them and clearing their stomachs of viscid phlegm. The hakims prescribe the koopamaynee in consumption.
Page 34 - I have myself known it put a stop to the vomiting in this disease, tt when many other remedies had failed. They also prepare with it a kind of liniment, which they suppose to have sovereign virtues in chronic rheumatism. In Europe it is occasionally employed as a stimulant in retrocedent gout, and in palsy. The watery infusion has proved a useful gargle in relaxation of the uvula. The dose of the black pepper may be from six grains to a scruple. What is commonly called white pepper, * Dr.
Page 58 - Ratieborziz in Bohemia. Captain Arthur, he states, was the first who discovered this metal in small quantities in Mysore, both in its native state, in thin plates, adhering to some specimens of gold crystallized in minute cubes, and mineralised with sulphur, iron, and earthy matter, forming a kind of brittle sulphuretted silver ore. Dr.