450 ORD. XXIV. Papilionacee ASTRAGALUS EXSCAPUS. 
of half an ounce ‘toa pint of water, and taken warm night and 
morning: it is also oteasionally to be used externally. By per 
severing a few weeks in the use of this decoction, we are told that, 
without. mercury, the various symptoms of the most inveterate. 
syphilis, as nodes, exostoses, tophi, scabies, venereal blotches, 
buboes, ulcers, &c: have been effectually cured. Besides the 
authors above noticed, we may remark, that the subsequent pub- 
lications of Endter,? Wegerich,* Girtanner,! Werner,® Tictz,” 
Carmanti,' all tend in some measure to. confirm the efficacy of 
this root. 
Its use is perfectly safe; and a and others found it 
necessary to make the decoction much stronger than that before 
_ mentioned. Professor Hunczowsky, though unable to discover 
its anti-venereal —_ admits it to be an useful remedy in 
rheumatism. 
Its sensible effects are an increase of the cutaneous and urinary 
discharges. 
et ES ¢ Diss, de Astragali exscapi radice. Erf. 1789. 
£ Abh, iiber d. vener. krankh. vol. i. p. 406, §°seq. 
& See Diss. de virtute Saponarie off. 1789. 
* Vide Diss. de virtuie Astrag. $c. 1790. + Vide Opusc. therapeut. v. 2. 
. 
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PTEROCARPUS SANTALINUS. RED SAUNDERS TREE. 
SYNONYMA. °Santalum rubrum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
Sandalum rubrum. Rumph. Amb. vol. 2. p. 47. Moutouchi 
suberosaz’ Aublet. Guian. vol. 2. p. 742. t. 200.- Conf. Supp. 
Plant. 318. 
Diadelphia Decandria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 854. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. s-deniact Caps, falcata, foliacea, varicosa. Sem. 
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