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a native, we are told that the free use of it isa salutary practice, 
being found to strengthen the stomach, assist digestion, and correct 
that putrescent colliquation of the humours so common in hot cli- 
mates. As an aromatic of the most acrid and stimulant kind it cer- 
tainly may be found efficacious in some paralytic and gouty cases, 
_ or to promote excitement, where the bodily organs are languid and 
torpid. 
It has been successfully exhibited in cynanche maligna, and in 
what by Dr. Mackitrick calls cachexia africana,’ which he considers 
as the most frequent and fatal predisposition to disease among 
negroes. The dose he directs is from six to eight grains. 
Bergius gave the seeds of Capsicum with great success in invete- 
rate intermittents.° 
4 Duncan’s Ed. Dispens. p. 257. 
© He prescribes them as follows: 
K sem. pip ind g* vi. bacc. lauri scrup. ii. f. pulvis, divedendus in tres partes equa- 
les; quarum prima portio sumenda incipiente primo rigore; secunda postridie eadem 
hora; tertia vero tertio die. M/, M.p. 144, 
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-PHYSALIS ALKEKENGI. | COMMON WINTER CHERRY. 
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SYNONY MA. Alkekengi seu Halicacabum. Pharm. Geoff. iii. 
55. Dale. 172. Alston. ti. 254. -Rutiy. 13. Cullen. ii. 553. 
Bergius. 130. Marray. i. 463. Lewis. 30. Ed. New Dispens. 
120. Gerard. Emac. 342. Ray. Hist. 681. - Hall. Stirp. Helv. 
n. 597. Solanum vesicarium, Bauh. Pin. 166. Park. Theat. 462. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Pl. 250. 
Gen. Ch. Cor. rotata. Stam. conniventia. Bacca intra calycem 
inflatum, bilocularis. : | 
Sp. Ch. P. foliis geminis -integris acutis, caule herbaceo inferne 
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