562 
pharmacopoeias, as pilulae ex aloe, pilulse ex aloe cum m 
tradhim colocynthidum compofitum. Pharm. Lond. pilul 
pilulas ~ 
ftomachicae. Pharm. Ed, 
yrrh 
ex- 
communes 
Rufi, pilulse ex colocynthide cum 
pil 
nctura aloes, tin&ura aloes compofit 
vinum aloes P. Z. elixir aloes v. proprietatis, elixir aloes five propi 
tatis vitriolicum, vinum 
m 
hi era p 
■5 
d other powde 
P. E. the pulvis aloeticus or 
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v- 
IPECACUANHA 
• 
IPECACUAN 
Ipecacuanha. Pharm. Land. &f Edlnh 
AFTER th 
g 
diligence of naturalift 
in 
exploring every 
juarter of the world, to extend the fcience of botany, it feems fur- 
prifing that the 
IP 
th 
roots of which have been 
common ufe more than a century, fhould not have yet been bo 
lly afcertained. It has been referred to feveral different genera, a 
that of paris, euphorbia, lonicera, viola, pfychotria, &c 
this laft has lately been thought to be the genus to which it belong 
nd though 
d 
onfequently named P. emetica by the younger Linnaeus 
v 
the authority on which Mutis 
implicitly follow ; and 
true Ipecacuanha 
ed the infor 
yet 
we cannot 
the figure 
not 
before us, though evidently the 
being advanced to a ftate of in- 
florefcence, leaves this matter ftill undetermined 
here reprefented, we are obliged to Sir Jofeph B 
1 
For the 
to whom it 
and 
was fent (preferved in fpirits) from Brazil by Governor Phillips ; 
though it is not in a ftate of perfection,, we trufl it will, as a curio 
fity, be thought a valuable addition to our pi 
Pifo divides th 
1Q 
two fo 
according to Geoffrey, the Per 
the white and the brown, or 
nd Brazilian Ipecacuanha 
* t 
three forts 
X 
re 
dently diftinguifhable in our fhop 
1 
viz. 
afh 
* Pi/on. Ind, res. Med, etNat.p. 23 r» 
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coloured 
