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with some degree of sweetness. It*hasybeen~chiefly used for ex- 
ternal purposes, and, as its name imports, has been thought to con- 
glutinate wounds and ulcers; but this opinion now no longer exists. 
_It is an ingredient-in the pulvis é cerussa. : 
TT oe ee 
Radix Indica rispeaiaid: Pharm. Edinb. da 
_ THIS root is called after Lopez, a Portuguese, who, according te 
Redi, found it growing in the province of Zanquebar in Africa; 
But Gaubius states it to be. a. native. of. ant and brought. from. 
Goa in Malacca to Batavia. 
To what tree this root is to be referee we inte not the’ means. 
to determine, 
_ The root is brought i in pieces of ei ight on or ‘nine inches in length, 
and from ane togun scone in thickness, though generally. emailer, 
~ consistin ing of a o% fy sarge coloured. light | wood, having. a 
brownish arstatan ene tance. lte: bark ‘is. soft, w wrinkled, 
brown, somewhat, spongy, and. covered with a. thin yellowish. 
epidermis. ° 
“This root, which. possesse es no “gemlurkably scusble. eS colt is. 
repeat in ‘the fae Indies. as a a medicine, of extraordinary, efficacy 
“ vi 
ee Bed an ; Numerous s trials of it it, m; made Py Gaubius, and. 
© ss a 2294.2 
aed ‘have tended d greatly’ to confirm its reput ati . 
Its dose, in powder, is from 15 to 30_grains, repeated three or 
4 
four eae 
3 broek aeend ( enibor~ may ) aicssice 
ansunt soagd oft va bsonboig ad oj aii? zozogqua euRuM } 
adi ~.atsromely 50> Tip pig de duade — fc’ 
4oat oda bas Xibodi:s aid bordvob sonstenieidt af oved x2 vowod, 
| Be tisss1sben {issa-zt 
sider’ bae piers moti tdguerd joi, se tom? « 2 sllosedise 
dtiw boxim comiiomor dele gaived..wolloy olec slo aati Te Hise ai 
La wollol agd: sottid ai stunt eth - aireles bs: gech s foawsl s modi 
