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Piper nigrum. Caffia fenna. 



Piper. Tamarindus Indxca. 



Opium. Pterocarpus Santolinus. 



Amomum Zinziber. Columba radix. 



Curcuma longa. Bubon galbanum. 



Kasmpferia rotunda. Cambogia gutta. 



Cardamomum minus. Manna. 



The Szvedes, if we confine ourfelves to the 7nateria Indica of 

 the famous LmntBia<, fought aid in a far greater extent in the 

 vegetable kingdom than we have done. Tlie Engli/Jj difpenfary 

 draws its medical help from not two hundred fpecies, of which 

 only the above are fought from India. The Swedes, in 1749, 

 had hopes of relief from the powers of five hundred and 

 thirty-five. India flattered them with medical affiftance from 

 fixty-five. 



All the healing art is confined to the Brahmins, and their 

 materia medic a to the vegetable kingdom, the native plants of 

 the plains and woods of the empire. They have their botanical 

 books in the Sanjkrit language. The Amercqfh, one of them, 

 contains in a fingle chapter a vocabulary of about two hun- 

 dred vegetables * . In. bilious cafes, they prefcribe copious 

 purgings; they fliun bleeding and emetics. In feverifli dif- 

 orders they wifely rely on extreme abftinence, and the fove- 

 leign medicine water-gruel made of rice -f . 

 Surgery. Surgery is totally unknowH among the Hindoos, It fliould 



• Afiatic Refearches, ii. p. 345. f Sketches of Hindoos, ii. p. 93, 



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