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ended as an external application in leprosy, ringworm, corn 
d obstinate ulcers; it is powerfully rubefacient and vesicant, 
d requires to be used with caution, In native practice 
Lejanne (Résumé de la Mat. Med. et. Tow. Coloniale) state that a 
d epispastic ointment may be made by incorporating one part 
it with eight parts of lard or vaseline, and a blistering paste by 
mixing it with wax in equal proportions. Dr, Brassac considers 
it to be a good, rapid, and safe vesicant, producing a copious 
ow of serum and notable reduction of hypertrophy in tuber- 
eulous leprosy; he advocates its general use as a vesicant. 
(Rapport sur la méthode Beauperthuy, Basse Terre, 1872.) In 
Europe a tincture of the pericarp (1 to 10 of rectified spirit) 
has been used in doses of 2 to 10 minims as a vermifuge. It 
is stated (Buchheim) that the oil has a very faint and hardly- 
acrid taste, and that 3 or 4 drops of it may be swallowed with- 
out marked effects. This contrast with its action on the skin 
Js attributed to its total insolubility in the watery fluids of the 
digestive canal. According to Basiner, the sub-cutaneous injec- 
of small doses of cardol produces on cold-blooded animals 
paralysis of respiration and tetanic spasms. In warm-blooded 
nimals large doses are not lethal, but stupor, paralysis of the 
extremities and diarrhca occur, and after death congestion of 
e intestinal lining is found. Cardol seems to be excreted 
efly with the urine, but partially also with the faces. 
plied on a small piece of lint to the skin of the breast it 
sed a watery blister in 14 hours, (Am. Journ. Pharm., 
ar. 1882, p. 131) ‘The kernel contains a bland fixed oil; it 
May be eaten raw or roasted. oo 
Description.—The fruit, which is about an inch in 
gth and kidney-shaped, is seated upon a large pyriform — 
eshy body 2 to 3 inches long, and coloured like an apple 
d and yellow, formed of the enlarged disk and top of . 
peduncle. The pericarp is cellular and full of oil ; seed a 
ney-shaped ;_ testa mem branaceons, adherent ; cotyledons a 
2milunar; radicle short, hooked. The spirit has a peculiar — 
