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The Introduction to the Second V olume. 
is good againft cold Swellings. A Planter gave the Powder 
of the dried Root, which work’d upwards and downwards 
as Ipecacuana, which he faid it was, but was as much mi- 
ftaken, as thefe affirming the Subfequent to be the fame. 
The Tryals or Ufe of the Root and other Parts of this Plant 
feem to me to be very hazardous. 
The fame Gentleman takes notice of the next Apocynum 
erectum folio oblongo, flore umbellato, petalis coccineis re- 
flexis. Cat. p. 89. Hift. Vol.1, p, 206, which he fays is 
commonly call’d in Sfamaica Blood Flower, Wc. from its 
ftopping Blood, when other Medicines fail’d. The Juice 
injeted by a Syringe ftops the Bleeding of the Piles,.. A De- 
coétion of the Leaves, Stalks, and Flowers, twice a Day for 
five or fix Days cur’d a runnning Gonorrhea, that nothing 
for twelve Months could ftop, after the virulence was. carried 
off, and Balfamics came to be us’d, without any Gleet ; the 
Flowers dry’d, drank as otherDea, cure Gleets. He fays 
alfo, that'it is likely:to be good for the Fluor Albus. 
The Root of this Plant was fent many Years ago tome 
from Virginia, for the Root of Ipecacuanna in order to get 
it fold, and a Commerce eftablifh’d for it; but obferving 
that it was not right Ipecacuanna, 1 excufed myfelf from 
difpofing of it, as not knowing what Mifchief might enfue 
from the Ufe of an:unknown Root. Some Years fince Dr. 
Burnet; who was fent over by the South-Sea Company to 
take care of their'FaGtory at Porto Bell, or Puerto. Belo, 
and who is well underftood in Natural Learning, at my 
defire ferit me over fome natural Productions of that Country, 
with the Ufes of them, and the Draughts or Defigns of 
others taken by black Lead. Amongft thefe, moft.of which 
stow  in'Sfamaica, and are taken Notice of in. this Hiftory, 
was the Draught of the above named Apocynum, and an 
Account that the Spaniards and Inhabitants about that Place 
took the Root \of this for that of the true: Ipecuacanna, 
Some timeafter: Mr: Barham wrote me the Account of this 
from ?famaica above-mentioned. Thefe Accounts, which 1 
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