APPENDIX. SIS 
Practitioners in the East Indies first borrowed the use of this 
root from the natives of those countries where it is produced, and 
found it of great service in most disorders of the stomach and 
bowels, and especially in the cholera, so fatal in hot climates. 
It stopped the vomiting in this complaint, more speedily and 
effectually than any other medicine; an effect attributed to its 
property of correcting the putrid disposition of the bile. With 
this intention its use has been recommended by Dr. Percival; and 
it has been successfully used in this country, not only in bilious 
complaints, but in various cases of dyspepsia. 
Cubeba. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
IT is generally admitted that this is a species of pepper, and in 
the Supplementum plantarum a description of the Piper Cubeba, 
a shrub growing in the woods of Java, is given: but we have no 
certain account that this is the species which furnishes the officinal 
cubebs; nor have we any informatien of the manner in which this 
fruit is collected. 
The long footstalk attached to the Cubeba distinguishes it at 
first sight from the other kinds of pepper, and hence it has been 
called Piper caudatum. Though still retained in both the British 
Pharmacopeeias, it is much ror ne to pepper, and has justly 
fallen into disuse. 
Elemi (resini) Pharm. Lond. 
THE London College refers this resin to the Amyris Elemifera 
of Linnezus; but this ceiebrated naturalist, in applying the name 
Elemifera to Catesby’s Frutex trifolius resinosus floribus tetra- 
petalis albis racemosis, has since acknowledged himself to have 
been mistaken ; as appears in the Ameen. Acad. vol. 7. where he 
supposes the Elemi to be produced by a species of Bursera. 
