144 ' MATERIA MEDIC A. 



substance, used by farriers in making charges. 

 (See Burgundy/ Pitch.) 



POiMEGRANATE. The dried fruit is 

 a moderately strong astringent, and is some- 

 times employed in diarrhoea, particularly in 

 horned cattle. 



The dose is from half an ounce loan ounce. 



It may be joined with alum, ginger, and 

 other auxiliaries, and occasionaliy with 

 opium. 



POPPY. The heads oi poppy dried make 

 a o-ood fomentation for wounds and tumours 

 that are in a painful and irritable state ; for 

 which purpose they are to be broken in 

 pieces^ and boiled in water, so as to make a 

 strong decoction. This decoction proves 

 very serviceable in irritability of the blad- 

 der, if used as a glyster, the bowels having 

 been previously emptied ; for this purpose 

 the decoction should be made stronger, by 

 boiiino; it for some time. 



It seems very probable that the good ef- 

 fect of this decoction depends in a great 

 measure upon the opium which is extracted 

 from the poppy heads ; it may be better, 

 therefore, to dissolve in water-gruel a pro- 

 per dose of opium, when an anodyne glyster 



