the French West-India Islands. 137 



success, the receipt of which I received from Mr. 

 Garnier : 



Take the sharp end of langue de chat, Eupatorium 

 frutescens hederce terrestris Jblio, Jlore purpurascente 

 (Plumerii cat. pag. 29), de franchbazin Ocymum, caryo- 

 phyllatum maximum (C. B. P. 225, and Tournef. hist. 

 204, and avocatier Peasea clusii hist, plant 2), of each 

 about four pinches. Make them boil lightly in a pint of 

 water. After having passed this decoction through 

 a sieve, add to it a half pint of sweet oil (English 

 measure), a dram of theriaca, and two ounces of syrup 

 of frangipanier. Plumeria Jlore ?vseo odoratissimo (Tour- 

 nef. hist, append, pag. 659). Give to the patient a tum- 

 bler full of this mixture every two hours, and every other 

 day they will melt in the two first tumblers of this drink, 

 two ounces of manna. 



If the expectoration is not plentiful enough, and if the 

 moisture is too thick, they may add the diaphoretic an- 

 timony ; but in case that the patient had a high fever, 

 and the skin was dry, far from prescribing this mineral, 

 they would resort to bleeding. 



5. Although the cholera-morbus is a symptom more 

 peculiar to summer diseases, than to winter ones, there 

 are, nevertheless, patients in this last season that are at- 

 tacked with this sad disorder. They ought then to view 

 it as the forerunner of a continued high fever. It dif- 

 fers from that which attends the cauzus or burning-fever 

 of the summer season, because the latter happens most 



