457 
fin all pre flu re b 
V^ 
r th 
oi 
in a 
calk 
d 
the finger and thumb 
fru 
? 
poured 
nd cleared from the fhelly fragments, is placed 
d boiling fyrup, juft before it begins to g 
taken out 
yers 
the call 
down to the bottom 
filled : the fyrup pervades every part quite 
d wh 
He obfe 
cool th 
th 
I 
h 
b 
mod 
call?: is headed for fafe 
" e 
e 
of preferv 
th 
fruit 
is with 
fugar, well clarified with eggs, till a tranfparent fyrup is formed, which 
gives the fruit a much pleafanter fl 
but as a principal med 
purpofe of the pulp depends upon its acidity, which is thus counteraded 
by the admixture of fugar, it would therefore b 
ways imported here in th 
Ind 
is more efteem 
pod 
r 
of more utility if 
The fruit produced in the Eaft 
than that of the Weft, and eafily to be 
diftinguifhed by the greater length of the pods, and the pul 
dryer and of a darker 
being 
This fr 
contains a 
the ufe of which was fir ft 
1 
LC 
ger proportion 
c 
ed of the Arab 
d, with the faccharine matter, th 
d is th 
fually found in the fru&us acido-dulct 
ployed as a laxative, but alfo for abating thirft and h 
re not only 
inflammatory compl 
thofe of a bilious kind 
i 
gerant qualities of the fruit have been found 
and for correcting putrid diforders, efpecially 
which the cathartic, antifeptic, and refri- 
qually ufeful. When 
intended merely as a laxative it may be of advantage to join it with 
3 of a fweet kind, by which its ufe is rendered 
lal, Three drams of the pulp are ufually fuffici- 
to open the body ; but to prove moderately cathartic, one or two 
manna, or purgative 
fafer and more effed: 
ent 
*el. e senna, 
quired. It is an ingredient in ele&uarium e caifi 
and 
electuary 
L 
c. 
* Cullen, M M. 
L il. p. 50*7 
Tournefort relates, that an eflential fait may be obtained fromTamarinds, bv diflblv- 
mg the pulp in water, and letting the filtered folution, with Tome oil upon the furface, 
in a cellar for feveral months ; that the fait is of a fourifh tafte, and difficultly diffoluble 
of the tret. Th 
I 
clarif 
ay 
mor 
ying the decoction of the Tamarinds with whites of eggs, then filt 
by 
evaporating At to a proper confidence, and fefciag it to c°ool : the fait (hoots' into 
cryitais of a brown colour, and very acid tafte ; but in diflblving and cryftalizing them 
again, or bareW wafhi'no- th*™ «*,vt» ,„„«.~.. *.u„„ i„r„ ~i.„_/l _u °*a. • /■ ,-. ., to 
P 
feeming not to be truly cryftall 
acid 
M.M. 
N 
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