4 ORD. f,. pagere _ PINUS SYLVESTRIS. 
presumed to happen in that of others. “From all these operations it 
will be obvious, that in many disorders of the . rigs this ajedicine 
may be highly useful."> 
An ointment of tar is directed in both Pharmatopecias, which has 
been chiefly tonnes in cutaneous disorders. Dr. Cullen says, “I 
mM] ice With respect to tar of a singular 
» kind, A leg of Siatton. ila ‘to roast; and whilst it continues 
toasting, it is basted with tar ‘natal of butter. Whilst the roasting 
 Poes"on, a sharp s skewer is frequently t thrust into the substance of the 
mutton, to give occasion to ‘the running out of the gravy; and with 
__ the mixture 0} of the tar and gravy to be found in the drippi ng-pan, the 
body is to’be anointed all over-for three or four nights successively ; 
whilst for the same time the same" body-linen i is to be worn. This is 
~ alleged to be a remedy i in several cases of lepra; and Ivhave had one 
instance of its being employed in a lepra icthyosis with great success: 
but for reasons readily to be apprehended, I have not had opportu- 
nities of repeating the practice.” 
* 
2 Mat. Med. vol. ii. p. 334. 
> Di os 
CT na er IRE IR a me 
PINUS ABIES. NORWAY SPRUCE FIR TREE, 
Pix burgundica. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
a a rete ence core ne <amuans 
SYNONYMA. Picea major prima, sive Abies rubra. Bauh. Pin. 
A93. Picea major. Ger. Emac. p. 1354. Park. Theat. p. 1538. 
Abies mas Theophrasti. aii Hist. p. 1396. Synop. p. 441. P 
Abies. Huds. Flor. Ang. ed. 1. p. 361. Abies tenuiore folio, 
fructu deorsum inflexo. Du Hamel Arb. 1. p.3.t. 2. The Spruce 
Fir Tree, Hunter’s Evelyn. 178. 
Sp. Ch. P. foliis solitariis subtetragonis acutiusculis distichis, ramis 
infra nudis, conis cylindraceis. Hort. Kew. 
