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R. Jones of Calcutta, in doses of six grains three times a day. 
In 1868 it was made officinal in the Pharmacopeia of India, 
_ where an ointment is directed to be made from the pounded 
kernels mixed with Ung. Simplex. Within the last few years 
_ the oil has been used in several of the London hospitals as a 
- remedy for stiff joints caused by rheumatism, being rubbed in, 
and also given internally in doses of 3 to 4 minims three times 
a day after meals; the dose may be gradually increased. For 
_ children 1 to 2 minims once a day is sufficient ; it may be. 
~ combined with -cod-liver oil. Dr. Young, of sine has 
used the oil with advantage in macular. and anesthetic 
leprosy; during treatment bronchial affections disappeared. 
In America it has been used as a remedy for: sprains and 
bruises and for sciatica ; over-doses (10 minims three times a 
day) cause vomiting mist purging with loss of appetite, but all 
ple are not equally affected by the drug. In chest 
ections and phthisis it may be rubbed into the chest with 
vantage. People taking it should live generously; native 
dian doctors recommend abstinence from meat, sweets; 
ices and acids during its use. Dr. Wyndham Cottle writes 
to the British Medical Journal on Chaulmugra oil and its 
active principle, Gynocardic acid, as internal and external 
remedies in various forms of skin disease. Gynocardic acid 
e finds preferable for several reasons, as it rarely produces 
ausea, can easily be given in the form of pills, and is more 
niform. Both the oil and gynocardic acid are used either as 
external or internal remedies, the oil being’taken best in — 
erles ; and the oil and the acid best applied as ointments in _ 
mbination with vaseline, Dr Cottle seems to have found - 
hese medicines most serviceable as local applications in eczema. 
eczema of the face, arid when it shows itself in dry patches, e 
has found an ointment of gynocardic acid of from 15 es iis 
rain, in eczema of the hands, such an ointment is 
generally useful application ‘with which he is é 
