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fidered as one of the pureft of the turpentines; and on this account 
it has lately been received into the Materia Medica; and from being 
lefs offenfive to the ftomach, promifes to fuperfede the balfam of 
Copaiva. : 55 
TAS ee Qe 
Cassia LIGNEA. (cortex, flores nondum explicata.) Pharm, Edinb. 
IN the Edinburgh Pharmacopeeia this is, referred to the Laurus 
Caffia ; but we have already ftated the caffia to be only a variety of the 
Cinnamomum, and late obfervations tend to confirm this opinion, 
As a medicine it is certainly in every refpect inferior to cinnamon. 
CoLom BA (radix) Pharm. Lond, & Edinb. 
Srvonrma. Calumba, Redi, Exp. circa varias res naturales, 1685. 
p. 142. Rais de Mofambique of the Portuguefe. 
WE have no botanical account of the vegetable which furnifhes 
this root. It is brought from Colomba in Ceylon in knobs, or 
circular pieces, brown, and wrinkled on the outer furface, yellowith 
within, and confifting of cortical, woody, and medullary Jamina. 
Its {mell is aromatic; its tafte is pungent, and naufeoufly bitter. 
Pradiitioners in the Eaft Indies firft borrowed the ufe of this root 
from the natives of thofe countries where it is produced, and found 
it of great fervice in moft diforders of the ftomach and bowels, and 
efpecially in the cholera, fo fatal in hot climates. It ftopped the 
_ vomiting in this complaint, more fpeedily and effectually than any 
other medicine ; an effec attributed to its property of correcting the 
putrid difpofition of the bile. With this intention its ufe has been 
recommended by Dr. Percival; and-it has been fuccefsfully ufed in 
this country, not only in bilious complaints, but in various cafes of 
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