A22 ORD. XXIV. Papilionacee. ciycyRruizi GLABRA. 
opinion that it very powerfully extinguishes thirst: this, if true, 
is the more remarkable, as sweet substances in general have a con- 
trary effect... It is in common use as a pectoral or emollient in 
catarrhal defluctions on the breast, coughs, hoarsenesses, &c. 
** Infusions or extracts made from it afford likewise very commo- 
dious vehicles or intermedia for the exhibition of other medicines: 
the Liquorice taste concealing that of unpalatable drugs more 
effectually than syrups or any of the sweets of the saccharine kind.’ 
* Dr. Cullen says, ** to explain this, [ observe that in the sweet of Liquorice, 
separated from the root, I do not find that it quenches thirst more than other 
sweets; and I take the mistaken notion to have arisen from this, that if a piece of 
the root is chewed till the whole of the sweetness is extracted, that further chewing 
brings out the acrid and bitterish matter, which stimulates the mouth and fauces, 
so as to produce an excretion of fluid, and thereby takes off the thirst which the 
sweetness had produced.” MM. M. vol. ti.p.407. = § Lewis, le c. 
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DOLICHOS PRURIENS. COWHAGE DOLICHOS. 
Sear tS RR A SR I A 
'“SYNONYMA. Dolichos. Pharm. Edinb. Phaseolus Zurratens's 
_siliqua hirsuta, Couhage dicta. aii Hist. p. 887. Phaseolus 
americanus, foliis molli lanugine obsitis, siliquis pungentibus, 
semine fusco punctato. Pluk. Phyt. p. 214. f. 1. Phaseolus 
utriusque India, lobis villosis pungentibus minor. Sloane Jam. 
vol. 1. p. 37. Phaseolus virgatus hirsutus prurigineus. Plum. 
Spec. 8. Stizolobium spicis multifloris pendulis alaribus, floribus 
ternatis, Browne Jam. p. 290. Cacara pruritus. Rumph. Amb. 
vol. 5. p. 393. t. 142. Nai-corana. Hort. Mal. vol. 8. p. 61. t. 
35. Dau nga. Flor. Cochin. p. 438. Conf. Jacquin. Amer. 
pict. p. 99. t. 188. Kerr. Med. Comment. vol. ii. p. 202. 
Class Diadelphia. Ord. Decandria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 867. 
