33 ! 
A 
in 
bag 
tlie market 
til 
called the Black G 
er. 
»>a 
White 
Ging 
IS 
the root of tl 
fame 
but inftead of the roots 
being fcalded, by which they acquire the dark appearance of the 
former, each root is picked, fcraped, feparatelj vmihed, and after- 
wards dried with great care ; of courfe more than a double expenfe of 
labour is incurred, and the market price is proportionably greater.* 
X 
Black Ginger lofes part of its efft 
boiling water 
by being thus immerfed 
this account it is lefs ufeful for medical and other 
purpofes than the white, which is always good when perfedly found 
and free from worm-holes : but that imported from the Eaft-Indies 
is ftronger than any we have from Jamaica. Gingei" gives out its virtues 
perfedly to redified fpirit, and in a great meafure to water. According 
to Lewis,' its adive principles are of a remarkably fixed nature ; for a 
watery infufion of this root being boiled down to a thick confiftence, 
diiTolved afrefh in a large quantity of water, and ftrongly boiled dov^n 
the heat and pungency of the root ftill remained, though with 
little or nothing of its fmell. Ginger is generally confidered as an aro- 
matic, lefs pungent and heating to the fyflem, than might be expeded 
from its effeds upon the organs of taile. Dr. Cullen thinks, however, 
that there is no real foundation for this remark.^ It is ufed as an anti- 
fpafmod 
diately ferviceable 
nd carminative. The cafes in which it is more imme 
are 
/ 
!1 
^ 
itulent colics, debility and laxity of the 
ftoma'ch and inteilines', and in torpid and phlegmatic conftitutions to 
excite brifker vafcular adion. It is feldom given but in combination 
with other medicines. In the Pharmacopoeias it is direded in the 
form of a fyrup and a condiment 
ordered as a fubfidiary ingredient. 
h 
d 
many compofit 
d 
Long's Hiftory of Jamaica, p. 7 
* Rumphius remarks alfo, *' Rubrae {])eciei radices craffiores font, magifque nodofe, 
externe plerumque cinerea primum, atque fub hac purpurea rubente dbdudse pellicula. 
uti & ipfarum caro ad oras rubet. &c. 1. c. 
« We mention this on the authority of J 
' Mat. Med 
Vindob. vol. I, No. 75 
CullQn's Mat. Med vol. 2, p. 2o6* 
lliould not be older than four or five 
young roots the aromatic tafte is peci 
in Martinica in menfis apponitur, par\ 
Eft etiam tunc infigniter acris, fed 
Tacquin. 1. c. 
cc 
J 
Of the very 
ge g 
quam 
exfi 
\ 
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. ^ 
■m 
BUBON GALBANUM 
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