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ative function !—all which must be preposterous. The 
stomach has been found inflamed to a great degree, when 
death has ensued from its effects. It produces gastritis, 
excessive diuresis, and much intensity of the general phy- 
siological functions. Has been used in low typhus, gan- 
-grene, the neuroses, dropsy, gout, rheumatism, suppressed 
ss, and other uterine affections. May be used in 
7 aie 
or solution, so prepared that } gr. may be given 
“ata dose, and not more than 1 or 2 grains in 24 hours. 
Dr. Lobstein, of this city, has written a small ingenious 
work on Phosphorus, to which I refer you for further in- 
formation. It has been in fashion of old—was revived— _ 
slumbered—revived again, and was in fashion but a short 
time since—is used again, in this city, at this day. In the 
words of the song, we may say, when next we meet it 
in fashion again, ‘* this day may be_an auld lang syne.” 
Formula— R Phosphorus, grs. iv 
4£theris Sulphuricis, f3j 
Dose, 5 or 6 drops, in a table-spoonful of water— 
in cases of great debility. Conradi. 
No. 417,—-Puyiiantuvs Ruamvyorpes. (Retz.) 
A 
The 
of his 
__ in Anthrax, a disease 
called, in India, Pavala Poola. 
The Tamool doctors use the leaves, by moistening them with 
a little Castor oil, and frequently in conjunction with the 
tender shoots of the Nux Vomica, and leaves of the Rici- 
mus communis—ayplying the whole, warm, as a poultice, 
: e common among the wealthy Hin- | 
doos, who eat much ghee, (clarified butter,) and get fate 
——Puyroracca Decanpra.* Poke. 
Orricrnat, Radix. The root. _ 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. Ni 
ure of the plant; 
No. 519. 
( ucato Calleloe 
red that it is con ic purge in Ame- 
wonder, that Ameri i * who has so 
} : “i n's y ‘ iting not less 
es of it, besides eopyi i atic: _ 
engraver, without, I think, su’ 
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