98 ORD. XLIV. Piperitz. PIPER CUBEBA. 
own experience, we can confidently recommend cubebs as the most effica- 
cious medicine we are acquainted with: that it will cure every case, is not 
to be expected, but, from numerous trials we have had, we are of opinion 
that more reliance may be placed on it than any other medicine that has 
hitherto been recommended for the cure of gonorrhea., Many of the 
~ untoward symptoms said to be occasioned by its use, we believe to have been 
caused by over-doses, too frequently repeated: we have seldom gone beyond 
one drachm, and usually combined it with the mucilage of acacia: we 
have more frequently found it open the bowels than induce constipation, as 
stated by Mr. Marly. 
Cubebs are usually given in powder, either in milk, mucilage of gum- 
arabic, or barley-water, or administered in the form of tincture, made by 
macerating two ounces of powdered eubebs in one pint of proof spirit, for 
fourteen days. Dose—from ten drops to sixty, in any proper vehicle. 
ORD. XLVI. LILIACEA. 
ALOE VULGARIS. YELLOW-FLOWERED ALOE. 
SYNONYMA. Andén, Dios. lib. iii. cap. 25. Aloe. Trag. Hist. 932; Fuchs. 
Hist. v. ii. 160; Camer. Epit. 430; Matth. Vaigr. v.ii. 45-6. Aloe vul- 
garis. Ger. Em. 507; Fl. Gree. Sibth. v. iv. p. 34. t. 341. Bauh. Pin. 286. 
Tourn. Inst. 8366; Decandolle, Pl. Grasses, 27, cum icone; Ait. Hort. Kew. 
ed. 2. v. ii. 292. Aloe perfoliata =, vera. Linn. Sp. Pl.458. Aloe pertfo- 
diata \, vera. Willd, Sp. Pl. v. ii. 186. Aloe barbadensis. Haworth, in 
Trans. Linn. Soe. v. vii. 19. 
Class Hexandria. Order Monogynia. 
Nat. Ord. Liliacee, Coronarize, Linn. Asphodeli, Juss. 
