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sometimes proves emetic, in large doses, is to be 
explained in the same way as the operation of 
mustard and horse-radish, which some of the 
older physicians employed as emetics. When 
the stomach is burdened with an undue quantity 
of stimulus, it naturally tends to relieve itself by 
vomiting. | 
On the whole, we are to esteem the Digrien 
cerifera as more interesting i ina chemical, than a 
medical point of view. The pleasant aroma of 
the water distilled from the berries, and the ap- 
plication of the wax to some purposes of phar- 
macy, are all, that this shrub at present offers, 
much deserying the attention of physicians. 
BOTANICAL REFERENCES. 
Myrica cerifera, Witty, iv. 745.—Micnavx, ii. 907 Pines 
ii. 620.—Myrtus foliis lanceolatis, &c —Gronovius, 155 — 
brabanticee similis, &c.—Carussy, i. 13? 
_ MEDICAL AND CHEMICAL REFERENCES. 
. Caner, translated in Nicholson’s Journal, 8vo. vol. iv. 187.— 
Bosrocx, in ditto, 129.—Kam, Travels, i i, 129.=-Damp, ¢ in Silliman’s 
Journal, vol. i—Tuacuen, Disp: 288. 
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