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and nut, which you muft fhake before you give it the patient 
to drink. 
Or thus, divide a nut into fmall pieces, fry it in oil, 
efpecially oil of olives, and let the patient drink it, or let it 
be applied to the place afteded, or rubbed over the parts fcized 
with the cramp, and it has the fame effe^ as above. 
ihe fame hy P. Geo. Camelli. Phil. TranC N^ 250. p. 88. 
^ranjlated from the Latin. 
/^Atahngay^ by others called Cantara^ is a plant that bears 
^ the true Nux Vomica of Serapiofi^ and which winds round 
the higheft trees j the trunk is woody, light, porous, and fome- 
times as large as one*s arm 5 the bark is rough, thick, and of 
the colour of afhes^ its leaves are broad, full of fibres, and 
bitter, very near like that in Fig. 7. Plate X. the fruit is lar- 
ger than a melon, and the flower like that of a pomegranate, be- 
ing covered with a very fine rind, that is tranfparent, fmooth, 
and of a pale or alabafter colour, under which is another rind of 
a fubftance as hard as flonej under this and within a bitter, yel- 
low and foft pulp, like that of the fruit Manga, the true Nuces 
VomkiC, which when frelh fhine white like filver, by reafon 
of a down they are covered withal, and not quite fo large as a 
walnut, and of various fhapes, to the number of 24 grow in a 
clufter ^ the Indians call it Igafiir and Mananaog ; the Spaniards^ 
^Pepitas de "Byfagas or Cathahgan, and others Faba S. Ignatii 3 
when dried it is as large as a filbert with its fhell on, or 
fomewhat larger, being knotty, very hard, tranfparent and as it 
were of a horny fubftance 5 it has a much more bitter tafte 
than the feed of citron, and according to Serapon is between 
a white and iky-colour. 
M. Camelli made a patient of a melancholic conftitution take 
one fcruple of the powder q>{ Igafur for a vomit; being troubled 
with a flux, weak digeftion and frequent vomiting, with four 
belchings, as alfo with a great deal of wind, which he nofooner 
took than he was feized with a trembling all over his body that 
continued three hours together with an itching, and terrible con- 
vulfive twitchings, fo as not to be able to ftand upon his legs, 
the convulfion was moft violent and troubieiome in his jaws, 
io that fornerimes he was forced to laugh, v/ithout any remark- 
able alteration in his puli'e, vomiting or any other fymptoms 
attending it- at length he found h'mfclf fomewhat better: 
Another patient had the like trembling and convullions, toge- 
ther with a very great oppreflion in hisbreaft, afwiming in the 
head, 
