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NAT. ORDER. EUPHORBIACE*. 



by the Hindoo doctors among those medicines which they conceive 

 to possess virtues in altering and correcting tlie iiabit in cases of 

 cachexia, and in old venereal complaints attended willi anomalous 

 symptoms. There is reason to believe that the timber imported 

 from the coast of Africa into Europe, under the name of African 

 Teak, belongs to some tree of this order. From a species of a tree, 

 stated by Mr. Brown to be an unpublished genus, it is said that a 

 substance resembling caoutchouc is procured from it. Euphorbia 

 corollata possesses, according to Rafinesque, emetic, cathartic, dia- 

 phoretic, expectorant, astringent, rubefacient, blistering and stimula- 

 ting properties. It is reckoned equivalent to the officinal Ipecac. It 

 purges at the dose of three to ten grains, and vomits at ten to twenty. 



