217 



a 



The 



bark, and wood "* of this 



the catalogues of the Materia Med 



comprehended in 



but as the roots are perfedly 



lig 



they may be medically confidered in the fame light 



wood, which is now moft generally employed, and feems 



differ 



\ 



from the bark in b 



thought 



be 



lefs intenfely bitter ; the 



is therefore 



more powerful medicine. QuafFia h 



no 



fenfil 



odour ; its tafte is that of a pure b 

 than that of almoft any other known fubft 



more 



nfe and durable 

 imparts its virtues 



more completely to watery than to fpirituous menftrua, and its infu 



fions are not blackened by the addition of mar 



The watery 



extrad is from a fixth to a ninth of the weight of the wood ; th 



z from 



fp 



about a twenty-fourth. Quaflia derived its nam 



a 



negro named Quafli, (by Fermin ^ written Coiffi, and by Rolander 

 Quafs) who employed it with uncommon fuccefs, as a fecret remedy 

 in the malignant endemic fevers, which frequently prevailed at 

 Surinam. In confequence of a valuable confideration, this fecret was 

 difclofed to Daniel Rolander, a Swede, who brought fpecimens of 

 the Quallia-wood to Stockholm, in the year 1756; and fmce then 

 effects of this 



numerous teflimon 

 authors.*^ 



drug have been very generally tried in Europ 



of 



\ 



d 



efficacy publiihed by many refpedable 

 Various experiments with Quaffia have likewife been made, 



appear 



with a view to afcertain its antifeptic powers, from which 

 to have confiderable influence in retarding the tendency to putrefac 

 tion,^ and this ProfefTor Murray thinks cannot be attributed to its 

 fenfible qualit 



depend upon its bitternefs, as gentian is much b 



as 



poffeffes no aftringency whatever, nor can it 



fep 



yet lefs 



The medicinal virtues afcribed to QuafTia are thofe of 



ilomachic, antifeptic, and febrifu 



has been found very efiedual 



m 



affift 



ftoring the tone of the flomach, producing appetite for food 



ing digeilion 



V 



pelling flatulency 



T 



and removing habitual cof- 



&c. likewife Dofiers rimilar aualities. 



font 



& 



meat jusqu'a prefent connu, &c. Patris L c. p. 144 



Defcription ^ 



tc 



cm. t. *. 212. 



Bci 



^ Of thefe v/e may mention Linnaus^ Dahlberg^ Blom^ Fermin^ "Tljfot^ Thorfienft 



verius 



p. 432. ^feq 



^ajft(^ vires (xpnduntur. p. 77 



Murray App 

 Dijf'. de ^lajjia^ ^c* />. 14, Severi 



voL Hi. 



\ 



tivenefs 



