chat. vin. MARGOSSE OIL. rq9 



creates a healthy appearance in a bad cut. It is 

 manufactured from the fruit of a plant in Ceylon, but 

 I have never met with it in the possession of an 

 English medical man. The smell of this oil is very 

 offensive, even worse than assafoetida, which it in some 

 degree resembles. There are many medicinal plants 

 in Ceylon of great value, which, although made use of 

 by the natives, are either neglected or unknown to the 

 profession in our own country. One of the wild fruits 

 of the jungle, the wood-apple or wild quince, is very 

 generally used by the natives in attacks of diarrhoea 

 and dysentery in the early stages of the disease ; this 

 has been used for some years by English medical men 

 in this island, but with no very satisfactory effect. 



