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__- flatus, opens the bowels, and provokes the appetite. Effi- 
cacious in bilious diarrhoea and dysentery, after cleansing 
the primz vie ; useful in dyspepsia, leucorrheea, hysteria, 
and indeed in all atonic affections indicating the necessity 
of aromatic tonics. Alibert tried it in the St. Louis hospi- 
tal, in intermittents, but found it not to answer. Brandes 
found it efficacious in these fevers. I have used the Cus- 
- paria for many years past; and in the fever which prevail- 
here in 1823-4, with the greatest and most unequivocal 
advantage : I cured numerous cases with it entirely, after 
a mercurial purge and an emetic. It may be exhibited 
_in infusion, decoction, tincture, extract, or in substance— 
in either case, the union of cinnamon or ginger disguises — 
its nauseous taste: it may also be combined with neutral 
ee salts, or magnesia, a 3 at 
___ Dose, of the powdered bark, grs. x to 5j—more than 
_ this pukes, or creates nausea. Of the infusion or decoc- 
tion, f3j to fZij—beyond the latter, it also nauseates. Of 
the aqueous extract, grs. x. 
cr aor a 
ath 
E 5 cer 
Adulterated with No. 118, which is an energetic poison. 
This is an important fact to be recollected, because in 
-commerce the poisonous bark is called sometimes Fine 
Iingustura, more commonly False Angus 
which names should be discarded, and th: 
substituted, by which no confounding one with the other 
could occur. eS ee Rica 
No, 117.—Boswetiia Serrata. (Roxburg. Asi- 
atic Researches, 8vo. vol. ix. p.377.) 
C1. 10. Ord. 1. Decandria Monogynia, Linn. re3 
Gen. char. Cal. beneath, 5-toothed. Cor. 5-potalled. 
_ germ, with stamens inserted on its outside. € 
5-valved, 3-celled. Seeds solitary, membranous, winged. 
~ OFFICINAL. Olibanum. Lond. Juniperi Lyciz gummi resi- 
nz. Edin. Olibanum; gummi resina. Dub.  Olibanum. 
In India, called Salaz. 
_ Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 133, 
_A large tree, native of the mountains of India; yields the 
_ Olibanum or Frankincense of commerce, which is import- 
_ ed from the Levant; but this is not so much esteemed as 
the Olibanum from Arabia. _ ee 
Quaxities. A translucent whitish-yellow brittle substance, 
generally covered with a whitish powder, from the attri- 
tion of the pieges with each other; when burnt, gives out 
a very frggrant and delicious odour ; taste acrid, bitterish, 
slightly aromatic; affords a volatile oll, = 
