88 TU, Ve ful Family Herbal, 
with Flower and Water, and add a little red Lead 
to colour it, add to it two Ounces of the Coculus 
Indi powdered. See where Roach and other Fifh 7 
rife, and throw in the Pafte in {mall Pieces, they | 
will take it greedily, and they will be intoxicated, 
They will fwim upon the Surface with their Belly — 
upward, and may be taken out with the Hands, 
They are not the worfe for eating. : ‘ 
The Copaca SuHrus. 
ae POP AGA PALI. = ie 
A Little Shrub frequent in the Eaft-Indies, and 
very beautiful, as well as ufeful. It grows 
ten or fifteen Feet high ; the Branches are. brittle, — 
and the Wood is white. The Leaves are keg a 
and narrow, not at all notched at the Edges, and 
- of a beautiful Green on both fides; the Flowets: 
are large and white, and‘fomewhat refemble s 
of the Rofe-bay, or Nerium, of which fome make Aa 
ita kind. Each Flower is fucceeded by two fe : 
- Pods, which are joined at the Ends, and of 
one about the other, they are full of a igs ‘ 
_ Matter about the Seeds. The whole Plant is Me 
ofa milky Juice, which ic ‘yields plentifully w when 
broken. : 
The Bark is the only Part ufed, it is but newly: 
. introduced into Medicine, but may be had of the — 
Druggifts, it is an excellent Remedy for Purgings: — 
__ ris to be given in Powder for three or four Days: 
_ and a Vomit or Bleeding behare: ee Be at = 
a Id, in many of our Stoves 
he and which en its. er It 
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