BOL—BON 79 
_ substances, somewhat resembling oily and resinous bodies. 
_ The one used in medicine is the 
®rricryat. Petroleum. Lond. Bitumen Petroleum. Edin. 
Petroleum Barbadense. Dub. Petroleum. Barbadoes Tar: 
commonly called Naphtha. 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 129. 
Quarries. A pale yellowish thin fluid; light, transparent, 
odoriferous ; unctuous to the touch, volatile, and very in- 
flammable. 
Menicat Prorertres anp Uses, Stimulating, antispasmo- 
dic, and sudorific; given in asthma, and coughs without 
inflammation. Chiefly used as a stimulant, in disease of 
hip joint, in rheumatic and other chronic pains, chilblains, 
porrigo, and to paralytic limbs, applied by friction. Dr. 
Flemming speaks favourably of it, internally administered, 
in the chronic rheumatism of the West Indies—he used 
the Burman Petroleum. Rarely used in U. S. 
Dose, from mx to fZss, in any convenient vehicle. 
No. 115.—Bo.etus Icnarius. Agaric of the oak. 
Orricrvat. Boletus Ignarius. Agaricus. Edin. Agaric. 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 130. _ 
A fungus, found in Europe, growing on the decayed trunks 
of the ash and oak—that of the latter is said to be most 
valuable. 
Quaxitizs, Prepared Agaric is inodorous; taste slightly 
astringent. Bouillon la Grange found it to contain resin, 
extractive, something similar to animal gelatine, and dif- 
ferent salts. ; é 
Meprcat Prorerties anp Usxs. A celebrated styptic, ap- 
plied to bleeding blood-vessels ; introduced, in 1750, by 
Brosard, a French surgeon, and for some years generally 
used—not now used. areas 
No. i116.—BonpLanpia TriFoLtaTa. Three-leaved 
Bonplandia. 
Synonym—Cusparia febrifuga of Humboldt, and adopted 
= ae the London College. 
Willdenow named the tree as above, in honour of Baron 
Humboldt. _ : 
Cl. 5. Ord. 1. Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. ord. Quassizx, 
- Juss, - : 
Cal. monophylous, campanulate, 5-toothed. Cor. 5-petalled, 
cohering at the base—funnel form. 
Orricinat. Cuspariz Cortex. Lond. ndize Tri foliate 
Cortex. Edin. & U. 8S. Goueeis Creo Cus- 
~ paria Bark, Bonplandia Bark, or Angustura Bark, 
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