78 BIS—BIT ae 
moderately strong smell ; splutters a little in burning, but 
does not explode, as Herman Valentine reports. Used by 
Tamool doctors, in India, as a purifier of the blood in de-— 
praved habits, and externally in foul ulcers, and in dis- 
cussing tumours of the joints. In Europe, is considered 
as diaphoretic, diuretic, cathartic, pectoral. 
Dose, from Bj to 3}. 
The tree which yields Bdellium is not certainly known 
—is supposed to be Chamzrops pumilis, a dwarf fan-palm. 
Others say, it is obtained from a species of Amyris; others, 
from the Bivaes belliformis. It is one of the substances 
thrown into the fire, by the Hindoos, at their trial by or- 
deal—Ainslie; also, Asiatic Researches. 
No. 112.—Bismutuum. L. & U.S. Bismuth. 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 127. 
A metal used for preparing the 
No. 113.—Bismurui Sus-nirras. L. & U.S. Sub- 
nitrate of Bismuth: formerly called Oxyde 
of Bismuth, and Magistery of Bismuth. 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 128. 
Quatirres. A pure white, inodorous, insipid powder; solu- 
ble in strong acids, from which water readily precipitates 
it—therefore insoluble in that fluid, and in very diluted 
acids; soluble in ammonia, which precipitates it from the 
nitrate; sparingly soluble in potass and seda._ It is hlack- 
ened by sulphuretted hydrogen gas, its solution in water, 
and all the hydro-sulphurets. Mixed with charcoal, and 
highly heated, is decomposed, and metallic bismuth rege- 
~ nerated. 
Meprcar Properties axp Uses. Antispasmodic and tonic ; 
used in gastrodynia, dyspepsia, spasms of the stomach, 
hysteric colics, palpitations of the heart, ney a Mr. 
A. ‘t. Thompson combines it with extract of » and 
Hufeland with cajeput oil and extract of henbane. 
An old remedy, revived by Odier of Geneva, and Dela 
Roche of Paris, followed by Marcet, Bardsley, Clark, in 
om peo Belden, Reil, Hufcland, Krysig, of Germany ; 
and Hosack and Dr. Samuel Moore, of the United States¢ 
chiefly as a remedy for gastrodynia and cardialgia. 
Dose, from 1 to 12 or 15 grains, two or three times a 
day. Odier gave it, a quarter of an hour before eating, in 
12 grain doses. In.an excessive over-dose, isa poison. 
aN 0. 114,.—Brrunte. : 
A term comprehending various mincral inflammable sub- 
vile 
