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convincing proofs to me of the efficacy of this medicine, and I hope 

 " the Simaruba bark will foon be in more general ufe." ' 



Dr. Wri2:ht recommends two drams of the bark to be boiled in. 



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To tliis decod:ion fome join aromatlcs, others a few drops 



twenty-four ounces of water to twelve; the decodion is then to be 

 ftrained and divided into three equal parts, the whole of which is to 

 be taken in twenty-four hours, and when the ftomach is reconciled to 

 this medicine, the quantity of the bark may be increafed to three 



dr 



of laudanum to each dofe. 



« L. c. p. "8, It may here be remarked, that Dr. Cullen fays, " we can perceive nothino- 

 in this bark' but that of a fimple bitter, the virtues afcribed to it in dyfentery have 

 not been confirmed by my experience, or that of the pra6litioners in this country; v.ni 

 leaving what others are faid to have experienced to be further examined and confidered 

 by praditioners, I can only at prefent fay, that my account of the efFe6l of bitters will 

 perhaps explain the virtues afcribed to Simaruba. In dyfentery I have found an infufion 

 of chamomile flov/ers a more ufeful remedy." Ms^i. MecL voL it. p. yS' 



QJJASSIA 



-— *«wwwiS:,^l*S5i;33S*. >S? 



AMARA 



S-iSl'. 



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BITTER QUASSIA. 



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BTNONTMA, 



Pharm, Lond, ^ Edinb, 



Quaffia 



pentaphylla pediculis alatis, floribus racemofis termin'alibus coccineis 

 frudu pentafpermo. Patris in Ga%ette faint aire ^ ^777 •> ^' 41.42. 



item in Rozier Ohfervat'tons fur la Phyfque, Tom, ix, 1777./* 



140 



Supp, Plant, p. 



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35' 



V 



Clafs Decandria. Ord, Mdnogynia. Lin, Gen, Plant. 529. 



Fff, Gen, Ch, - Cal, 5-phyllus. • Petala 5. NeBarhwi . 5-phyllum*^ 



Pericarpia 5, diftantia i-fperma. 



CX^ floribus hermaphroditis, foliis impari-pinnatis, foliolis 

 oppolitis feiTilibus, petiolo articulate alato, floribus racemofis. 



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Sp. Ch, 



THIS tree rifes feveral feet in height, arid fends off many flrong 



branches: the wodd is white and light; the bark is thin, and of a 



rey colour : the leaves are placed alternately upon the branches, and 



confift of two pair of oppofite pinn^, with an odd one at the end : 



No. 16, 



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