os 2 oS AREA canna game gS Sa pe eI eS Aa a ae ences ae ie aoe ea ae pas 
te ak z ae) ieee * 
GUA 
gold crowtis a pound; but it often failed in curing the pa- 
pam and was, ate ef fuperfeded by mercury 5 though 
Neve 
' fome opinions and faéts adduced by Boatnet: Aftruc, Plenk, 
De Haen,. Hutten, and lately by Mr. Hunter, may 
fidered i in fome lire as exceptions. 
um are ftated by Bergius to be § 
— diuretica, fubcal ow fomatiik;" 
” 
good “effete 5 but in thin emaci 
Se ristideakan ftate of the fluids, it often does harm. 
Dr. Woodville fays, that he has frequently conjoined it with 
oap, in fome valet with bark and fteel, 
ufeful as an cog In the phar- 
in uire and elixir ; 
pirit of ial 
given from fix grains to twenty, or 
‘ot, a by itfelf, or ina fluid form, by means of muci- 
« decoétum lignorum,”” 
y- The 
or the of egg. 
(F Ed.) of whic hich guaiacum is the chief i 
commonly taken in the quantity of a pint a 
_ “mixture ef ’ of the London pharmacopaia, or 
14 dram ; ugar, two drams; mucilage of 
acacia gum, two fluidrams ; ase namon-water, eight 
fiuid-ounces. The gusiacur ie? va with the anil t 
— = poe on are mixed the cinnamon- 
on wadaly. "The dofe for adults from 
The The “tin@ture’? formed by macerating for 
'$ wes ‘half a in 
iat @ 4 Av ht con sees the the 
athoms 
GUA 
The guaiac wood is diftilled by putting thin pang AS of 
it into a ftone-ware retort, to which is to be fitted a lar. 
glafs receiver, with a {mall hole ‘sp in its fide ¢ and he 
diftillation is to be promoted by a al fire. A liquor, 
like water, is obtained firit, and then an rrr reddifh, empy- 
reumatic liquor, with a little reddifh oil. - In this ‘procefs 
a confiderable quantity of air is difcharged ; which proves 
that this element is combined in certain bodies, and parti- 
cularly in this. 
ae in Botany, Tourn. t. 443. Gaertn. t. 38: 
See Psrp1 
GUAIBI Srey in Ichthyology, the name of an Ame- 
rican fith, called the Portuguete burace de velha, It is 
ied, “a a rifing back, and is ufually caught be~ 
tween five and eight inches wn i and of vim a a third part 
of its length in breadth. It is ¢ the rocks and 
about the fhores, and it is eaten in gehen. lenty in the 
Brafils, both by the natives and Portuguefe. arcgrave’s 
er Por pge: 
AINUMBI, in h circa om See Trocutt 
GUAGE ACHIL, in Geography, atown of ey in the 
diocefe _ J apocrate 45 miles N. of Guanca-Velica. 
at _ eru, in the audience of La Paz ; 
5 miles NOW. a4 
GUALA 
c 
GUALAGA, i in tne he Sih tg South mei 
which rifes in S. lat. 10° 57’, he name of the Gua- 
nuco, from the lake Chighacab ay os of Bombon, 
whence it paffes to the N. re ving ers, and reaches 
the vicinity of the town of I eck Guanuco, eo 3: After 
it receives the river ver M om the’ 
and paffing throu 
ie Tein being 452 
to Sobreviela (ci by Pinkerton). 
Guage divided “e two branches, 
native wax or tallow. 
GUALATA, a country of A 
Africa, about ie poet 
a lantic. N: lat. 23° 30's to 25° 30". long. 
GUALCAS, — Pera, in the diocefe of Trax- 
illo 
UALDO-PRIORATO, “res gd in cos. tne 
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