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oil prepared from the (imple infufion of the nut is a very ftrong 
emetic, and ferves for the fame purpofes as the nut itfelf- 
moreover it affifts conco(5tion and recovers loft appetite. 
The deco6lion of Mamirigal relieves in all cafes of poifbn, 
and the biting of poifonous animals ; it is a febrifuge and an 
anti-afthmatic; it removes inveterate obftrudtions, and reftores 
loft appetite 5 befides that, being taken in the morning for eight 
days together it cures the yellow jaundice, it expels worms 
and gives relief in thecholic^ two drachms of the decoftion 
give almoft five ftools : The dofe of the powder of the vomit- 
ing bark Mananangtan is from one fcruple to four 3 it eva- 
cuates ftrongly, both by vomit and ftool, phlegmatic, tough and 
choleric humours^ from whence it is given with iliccefs in 
fevers, repletion of the ftoniach, an exceis of vilcous hu- 
,mours, a cachexy, anddr(»piy; ihis, with the deco6tion Ma- 
nungak i^ v\.i-y good in all cafes of poifon, and in expelling 
worms 5 Fig. 8. Plate X. reprefents the leaves, Fig. 9. the 
flowers, and Fig. 10. the fruit of this plant. 
Stones found in the Stomach, Kidney and Gall-bladder 1 hy 
M. Will. Clark. Phil. Tranf. N^ 250. p 55. 
/t^- 1^90. a lady, who, by the advice of her phyficians, 
•^^ had been drinking the waters at Moffet Wells in An- 
'nandale in Scotland for a continual vomiting, and nephritic 
complaints, died there in a fit of vomiting • upon diflefting the 
ftomach Mr. Clarke found a ftone of the form and bignefs as 
in Fig. II. Plafe X. the corner a was almoft fixed in the ^y~ 
loruSi Co that the paflage from the ftoniach to the inteftines was 
almoft quite fnuc up 5 the fubftance of this ftone was a little 
fpongy weighing about 8t drachms 5 in the left kidney he 
found alfo a ftone of the lame fubftance weighing about five 
drachms, and in the gall-bladder he found fcveral ftones 
weighing two drachms. 
Th.u ftones are daily generated in the Fe/ica Urinaria, reins 
and Veficula Fellis, is a thing very common, but not fo in the 
ftomach of a human body 5 however, it feems they have been 
produced by the fame common caufe and from the fame petri- 
fying matter : Mr. Clarke thinks that fome extraneous body- 
gives origin to that in the ftomach, as it frequently happens 
even in thofe extra6ted from the Vejica Urinaria -^ thus an iron 
tag, a leaden bullet, ^c. have been found to be the kernels of 
leveral ftones 5 and that feveral extraneous bodies are often- 
times found in the ftomach, which have been fwallowed down 
either 
