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*' Modern phyficians have found from fxperience, that this 

 medicine is only fuccefsful in the third ftage of dyfentery, 

 where there is no fever, where too the ftomach is no way 

 hurt, and where the jfripes and tenefmus are only continued 

 by a weaknefs of the bowels. In fuch cafes, Dr. Munro 

 gave two or three ounces of the decoftion every five or fix 

 hours, with four or five drops of laudanum ; and found it 

 a very ufeful remedy. The late fir J. Pringle, Dr. Huck 

 Saunders, and many others, prefcribed the cortex fimaruba 

 in old andobltinate dyfentcries and diarrhoeas, efpeciallytliofe 

 brought from warm chmates. Fluxes of this fort, whicli 

 were brought home from the fiege of Martinico and the 

 Havannah, were completely and fpeedily cured by thii bark. 

 The urine, which in thofe caies had been high-coloured and 

 fcanty, was now voided in great abundance, and perfpira- 

 tion reltored. Dr. James Lind, at Haflar Hofpital, fays, 

 that the fimaruba produced thefe effefts fooner, and 

 more certainly, when given in fuch quantity as to nau- 

 feate the ilomach. Dr. Huck Saunders remarks, that 

 if the fimaruba did not give relief in three days, he ex- 

 pelled little benefit from its farther ufe ; but others have 

 found it efficacious in fluxes, after a continued ufe for 

 feveral weeks. My own experience, and that of many 

 living friends, are convincing proofs to me of the efficacy of 

 this medicine, and I hope the fimaruba bark will foon be 

 in more general ufe." 



Dr. Wriglit recommends two drachms of the bark to be 

 boiled in twenty-four ounces of water to twelve ; the de- 

 coftion is then to be fbained and divided into three equal 

 parts, the whole of which is to be taken in twenty-four 

 hours, and when the ftomach is reconciled to this medicine, 

 the quantity of the bark may be increafed to tliree drachms. 

 To this decoAion fome join aromatics, others a few drops 

 of laudanum to each dofe. 



Dr. Cullen fays, that the virtues afcribed to fimaruba 

 have not been afcertained by his own experience, or that of 

 the pradlitioners in Scotland. Woodv. Med. Bot. 



SIMAROW, in Geography, a town of Hindooitan, in 

 Bahar ; 1:5 miles S.S.W. of Arrah. 



SIMARUM MusctJLUs, in Anatomy, a name given by 

 fome of the old writers to a mufcle, called by the moderns 

 the ferrat'.is magnus. 



SIMAS, in Ancient Geography, a promontory in the 

 Euxine fea, on which Venus had a Itatue. 



SIMATIUM, or SIMAISE, in ArchiteQure. See Cy- 



MATIUM. 



Simatlum and eymaiium are generally confounded together, 

 yet they ought to be diftinguifhed ; the latter being the 

 genus, and the former the fpccics. 



Simalium, oi fima, camouB, according to Felibicn, is the 

 lait and uppermoft member of grand corniches, called par- 

 ticularly the great doucine, or gula reila ; and by the Greeks, 

 epitUheta. 



In the antique buildings, the fimatium, at the top of the 

 Doric cornichc, is generally in form of a cavetto, or femi- 

 fcotia ; as we fee particularly in the theatre of Marcellus. 

 This fome modern architects have imitated j but, in the 

 Ionic order, the fimatium is always a doucine. 



The fimatium, or doucine, then, is dillingmflied from 

 the other kinds of cymatia, by its being camous or flat- 

 nofed, 



SIMBALATH, in the Materia Meiiica, a name given 

 by Avicenna and others to the Ipikenard, or nardus Indies. 



The exaft interpretation of the word is fpici^era, and 

 Avicenna, under this general name, dillinguilnes it into le- 

 veral kinds ; the iirfl he calls alnardin, or nardin. It has 

 been fuppofcd by ferae that he means the Indian fpikenard 



by this word ; but, on the contrary, it appears plainly that 

 he meens the Celtic nard : he calli it the nardus Romani orbit, 

 and fays that it is of European growth. After this he 

 mentions the Afiatic nards of feveral kinds, which are only 

 the Indian fpikenard, giowing in different places, and 

 fuch as ufed to be brought thence in different degrees of 

 perfeftion. 



SIMBANI, in Geography, a trad of countr)- in Afia, 

 abounding with woods, and uncultivated, lying between the 

 kingdom of Woolli to the north-weit, Foota Torra to the 

 north, Bondou to the north-catt, and Tenda to the fouth- 

 weft. 



SIMBING, a town of Africa, in Ludamar : c milei 

 S.W. of.Iarra. 



SIMBIRSK, a town of RufTia, and capital of a govern- 

 ment, on the Volga ; 380 miles E.S.E. of Mofcow. N. lat. 

 54° 25'. E. long. 48- 30'. 



SIMBIRSKOE, a government of Rullia, bounded o« 

 the north by Kazanflioc, on the weft by Nizegorod(l<oe and 

 Pcnzenllcoe, on the (oiith by the government of Saratov, 

 and on the eaft by Uphinflcoe ; about 180 miles from eatt to 

 weft, and 140 from north to fouth. N. lat. 52° 20' to 55* 

 30'. E. long. 45° to 51°. 



SIMBOLAN, a town of South America, in the pro- 

 vince of Tucuman ; 85 miles S.E. of Rioja. 



SIMBULETA, in Botany, ahered by For(l<all from 

 the Arabic Symbulet ennefem. — Forlk. ./Egypt-Arab. 115. 

 Juff. 4 1 8. — Clafs Didynamia ; Order probably Angiofpermia. 

 Nat. Ord. uncertain. 



Eff. Ch. " Calyx five-cleft. Corolla bell-ffiaped, rin- 

 gent. Anthers combined." 



Defer. " Stem annual, a foot high, fimple, flender, ereft, 

 round, with fome appearance of angles. Leaves fcattered, 

 near to each other, linear-thread-fhaped ; the upper ones 

 fimple, half an inch long ; lower an inch long, in two deep, 

 pointed, fmooth divifions. Clujler terminal, four inches in 

 length. Flowers folitary, drooping, on ftiort ftalks, with 

 a fliort, linear, leafy bratlea under each. Calyx a perianth 

 of one leaf, bell-fliaped, permanent, in five linear equal 

 fcgments. Coro//(j of one petal, ringent, white; tube bell- 

 Ihaped, longer than the calyx ; upper lip of the limb re- 

 flexed, cloven ; lower longeft, three-lobed, ftraight, iti 

 middle lobe inflexed. Filaments four, inferted into the co- 

 rolla, two of them longeft. Anthers four, black, united 

 into a quadrangular comprefied plate. Germen ovate. 

 Style thrcad-fliaped. Stigma capitate, ovate, nearly glo- 

 bofe, oblique. Fruit not obfcrved. The afpcA of the 

 plant is exaAly that of a Refeda or Polygala ; it moreover 

 approaches the charadler of Cohimnea, as to the combined 

 anthers, but differs in many other refpefts." Found on 

 mount Kurma, and no where clfe, by Forlkall, whofc de- 

 fcription has not enabled any learned botanift to guefs at 

 the plant, except that Juffieu thinks it may be akin to Ve- 

 ronica, or to Aiiblet's Piripea. W'c fliould rather fufpeft 

 an affinity to Antirrhinum. 



SIMCOE Lake, in Geography, a lake of Upper 

 Canada, formerly lake Aux Claies, fituated between York and 

 Gloucefter, and comiiuiiiicatiiig with lake Huron. It lias 

 a few fmall iflands; and feveral good harbours. 



SIMELIUM, a Latin term, ufed by fome to fignify a 

 table, witli ranges of little cavities in it, for the difpofirig 

 of medals in chronological order. 



The word is but ill written ; it Hiould rather be dmelium, 

 as being formed of the Greek /.ufJsXio^, curiofilies, or ij eahinet 

 of precious things. 



We more ulually lay, a cabinet of medals, than a fimc- 

 lium. 



5 B 2 SIMENA, 



