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LUPINUS ALBUS, Linn. 
White Lupine (Zng.), Lupin blanc (Fr.). 
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Hab.—Egypt, Levant. 
Vernacular.—Turmus, Bakila-i-misri (Arab., Pers., Ind-). 
History, Uses, &c.—tThis plant has been cultivated 
since the days of the ancient Egyptians, and is still very ex- 
__ tensively sown in Italy, Sicily, and other Mediterranean countries 
for forage, for ploughing in to enrich the land, and for its round 
flat seeds, white outside but yellow internally, which when. 
boiled, so as to remove the bitter: somewhat deleterious prin- 
_ ciple, form an important article of food in some districts. It 
is the Sppos of the Greeks,* and was much esteemed by the 
ancients for its medicinal properties. Pliny (22, 74), following 
the Greeks, informs us that dried lupines stripped of the husk 
_ and pounded are applied in a linen cloth to black ulcers, in whiclt 
_ they make new flesh: boiled in vinegar they disperse-scrofulous 
_ Sores and imposthumes of the parotid glands, A decoction 
of them with rue and pepper is given in fever and to expel 
intestinal worms. He also states that lupines stimulate the 
_ 4ppetite and dispel nausea, and that the meal kneaded with 
_ Vinegar removes pimples and prurigo and allays inflammations, 
‘e A decoction of them is very good for affections of the spleen, 
_ and with honey for retardations of the catamenia:a decoction of 
_ the root acts as a diuretic: The Indian Mahometan physicians 
follow the ancients, but they especially esteem lupines for their 
_ Supposed pectoral and strengthening” properties. In European 
- Medicine lupines are no longer used, but the flour was formerly 
_ one of the quatre farines résolutives. Donuabella (Practitioner, 
 &xi., 211, 1877) reported that, having. thrown into the rectum 
about five ounces of a decoction of Iupines he-soon began = 
_ feel general malaise, uneasiness of the head, obscarstion of 
‘vision, heaviness of the eyelids, vertigo, excitement of mind 
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: © Throphr. H, Pv 1, & Westies) Vil 1, & % 10, end O..P. The s 
Dios. II, 101. 
