192 Timehri. 
SapapitLo.—(Achras Sapota). The fruit is good for indigestion. The 
seeds are parched and used for cases of retention of the urine. The gum is 
one of the chewing gums of the United States, 
Stineine Nertie.—(Fleurya estuans). Boiled for cases of retention of the 
nrine. 
Satt.—See Lime, Pine-Apple, Piaba, etc. 
Stine.—The resultant from muscavado sugar. With lime-juice an excel- 
lent lemonade different in taste from all others and welcome to all who could 
get it. Hard to get in the colony but can be got in Barbados. For cooling the 
blood and for fever patients. Taken without dilution as an aperient. 
Sucar.—A strength-giving food. For a burn or scald immediately place 
sugar banked up high on the affected parts and the patient is relieved. No 
after-effects such as changing of the skin from black to white. Personally 
vouched for. A doctor should be seen zm ve the shock to the system as soon 
as possible. 
Suaar or the juice of the cane is said to be an antidote for the poison from 
the Accowai arrow. (Bancroft.) Experiments have proved this not to be so. 
Souprer’s Purstane.—(Peperomia pellucida). Known as the Sojer pusly. 
Grows mushroom-like any and everywhere, especially in damp places. Use 
as a food for cage-birds. Take the plant and wash it and cut off the flower 
spikes and the roots and use it as a salad either fresh and alone or with food 
or bread and butter. It has an aromatic taste and is excellent for cleaning 
the blood and an excellent food for children. I have eaten it for some years 
and a doctor here has eaten it for scores of years and prescribes it for one and 
all. Whilst writing these notes a gentleman called on me and in discussing 
the cures of the colony he told me that his wife was cured of an inflammation 
of the womb from the use of it as a tea. Broken the juice is good for sore eyes. 
Snake Roor.—For fever. (Bancroft.) 
Sweet Broom.—(Scoparia dulcis). For fever and cleaning sore mouths in 
infants and children. 
SanpBox.—(Hura crepitans). A powerful emetic. 
Simatoo.—(Passiflora maliformis). The fruit is eaten as a dessert. Three 
leaves boiled as a tea as a vermifuge for children. Used extensively in Canals 
1 and 2. 
Soursop.—(Anona squamosa). The fruit is eaten as picked or it is denuded 
of the seeds and mixed with liqueur and nutmeg and eaten as a cooling fruit 
salad. Makes one of the finest water ices. Break the leaves in water, squeeze 
a couple of limes therein, get a drunken man and rub his head well with the 
leaves and water and give him a little of the water to drink and he gets as sober 
as a judge in no time. 
