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GandoUe, been discovered in New Holland. The; 

 aii'l are, when met with in the tropica, found inhabiting 



: in the lowlands of 1 1 ■ • r countries thej an ahm wn. 



Acridity, causticity, and poison, are the general 

 which, howi vi r, contah in which tl«« »'-*- qualiti 



Innoxious. The caustic principle is, according to Kra] cited b) U 



■ verj singular nature ; ii is bo volatile that, in mi 

 water, or boiling, are sufficient t" dissipate it : it i- n< ith< r acid n i 



ed by acids, sugar, honey, wine, spirit, &c. and is onlj effectual!) 

 water and vegetabli acids. The leaves of Knowltonia vesicatoi 

 in g in Southern Africa. Ranunculus glacialis is :i powerful sudorific : Aconitura N > 

 Ins and Cammarum are diuretic. The Hepatica, \ I Delpb 



eonsoUda, arc regarded as simple astringents. Tl 



are drastic purgatives ; Of the perennial Adonises, according t" Pallas, enn 

 vogues; and "I several Aconites, especially Napellus and ferox, acrid in a 

 The black Hellebore of the ancients was H. officinalis rather than II. i 

 1842,1.34 & 58). The root oi an Vconite of India, 

 stances called Bikh, or Bish, is a most virulent poison. According 

 Bishma, or Bikhma, is a Btrong bitter, very powerful in thi 

 Bikh, or Kodoya Bikh, has a root possessing poisonous proper! 

 land, whether taken into the Btomach, or applied to wounds : the Nir lh>hi, or N 



o deleterious properties, but is used in medicine. For some important inl 

 lion "ii this Bikh, Vish, Visha, or Ativisha, which Walhch considers liium 



hrox, '. As. Rar. vol. i. p. 33, tab. 41, and especially /.■'"/ 



Ranunculus flammula and sceleratus are powerful epispastics, and ar< used as such in 

 the Hebrides, producing a blister in about an hour and a half. Their action, i-. bow. 

 Brer, too violent, and the blisters are difficult to heal, being apt to pass into irritable 

 ulcers. Beggars use them for the purpose of forming artificial ulcers, ai 

 ta and flammula. The root of Ranunculus Tho 

 tremely acrid and poisonous, its juice ha\ i formerly used by the 



of wild ■ envenom their javelins, w I i 



I speedily fatal and incurable. TherootofH' 



and somewhal i II, and is bitter : ii 



. umler the name of Yellow-root. The ro I ■: Copt 

 thread, is a pure and powerful bitter, devoid of anything lik 

 popular remedy in the United SI th in chi 



The wood and bark of Xanthorhiza apiifolia i 

 contains both a gum and wsh of which is inten 



Nigella Bativa were formerly employed instead of pepper; I 

 Btapbisagria are vermifugal, causl 

 tonic. It is supposed that a pi 



Siah ilana, for flavo k Cumin of Scriptun 



i R '■ P j eeds are emetic and cathartic; thi 

 imodic. The black berries of t ; 

 Dous, the roots antispasmodii . 

 I afforded very marked relief in 

 to Botrophis actseoid) i racemoe . / 



■ led. intl stal remedy for the I 



that the root of a species of ( Hematis 

 timulant to the horses which drop down during th< i i 

 «>f the root, held to the nostrils of the fallen hoi 

 ling; the animal springs up and is led t'> - 

 . /■' '. V. 301. The fruit of the May appl< 

 whence its name of Will Lemon, and may 

 The leaves are poisonous, and the whole plant nar 

 reputation, the whole Order, with a fi 



being almost the only evacuanl retained. Dr. i 

 of all the European Aconib oly, A. N ip< . 



including A. Cammarum, being feeble and un 



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