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wards returned again. A woman, who took a scruple of this 

 drug night and morning, two successive days, is said to have 

 been seized with convulsions and vertigo. Notwithstanding 

 which, the dysenteric symptoms returned, and the disorder was 

 cured by other medicines ; but a pain in the stomach, the effect 

 of the Nux Vomica, continued afterwards for a long time. 

 Loureiro recommends it as a valuable internal medicine in 

 fluor albus ; for which purpose, he roasts it till it becomes 

 perfectly black and friable, which renders its medicinal use safe 

 without impairing its efficacy." 



In allopathic therapeutics, it has been employed in a variety 

 of diseases : viz., by Wiel and Hartmann, in different forms 

 of rheumatism and gout. By Scudamore, in neuralgia. By 

 Thebesius, Sundelin, Bocher, in hydrophobia. By Horn, in 

 epilepsy ; in general and periodic convulsions ; tonic, clonic, 

 and hysterical convulsions. By Richter, in catalepsy. By Be 

 Candolle y Magendie, Fouquier, and many others, in different 

 forms of paralysis. By Wcdcl, Buchner, Marcus, Hannstrom, 

 and others, in ague. By Alston, in mania. By Junghaus, 

 Thebesius, etc., in melancholia, hypochondriasis, and hysteria. 

 In hemicrania and nervous headaches, by Hartmann, Kopp, 

 etc. In amaurosis, by Magendie. In prosopalgia Fother- 

 gillii, by Scudamore. In chronic vomitings, with disorganiza- 

 tion of the stomach, especially the pylorus, by Schmildman. 

 In pyrosis, by Mellor. In colic, painful spasms of the bowels, 

 by Schultze, Montnas, etc. In colica hysterica, by Sidren. In 

 dysentery of different forms, by Horn, and others. In passive 

 chronic diarrhoea, by Hufeland. In symptomatic diarrhcea in 



typhus, by Voigtel. 



Magendi 



etc. etc. 



Description.— A tree of considerable size. The stem short 

 and crooked ; the younger branches have a knotted appearance, 

 and are covered with a dark green bark. 



The 

 all excrescences. The wood 



is white and tough. The leaves are oval, shining 



