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remove the peculiar burning sensation in the soles of the feet, so 



common amongst natives" (Dr. John Lancaster.) 



" Used in chronic gonorrhoea, when the pulp of the fresh 

 fruit is mixed with milk and administered with cubeb powder. 

 Supposed to act as diuretic and astringent on the mucous 

 membranes of the generative organs" (Dr. Fitzpatrick.) 



" The leaves are very efficacious when pounded into a 

 pulp without any admixture of water, and applied cold in the 

 form of a poultice to unhealthy ulcers" (Asst. -Surgeon A. C. 

 Mukerji.) 



li The fresh juice of the leaves acts as a mild laxative in 

 cases of fever and catarrh, and has probably the effect of remedy- 

 ing these conditions" (Asst. -Surgeon Doyal Ch. Shome). 



" The decoction of the leaves is used as a febrifuge and 

 expectorant " (Asst.-Surgn — N. L. Ghose.) 



"The juice of the fresh leaves has a laxative action." 

 (Surgn. K. D. Ghose.) 



" The root is said to be an antidote against poisonous 

 snakebite." (Surgn, Meadows.) Watt's Dictionary. 



In the Pharmaeopceia of India, the half-ripe fruit is officinal. 



The value of Bael in intestinal affections, though noticed by 

 Rheede (Eort. Malab., vol. iif, p. 37), Burman (Flor. Tnd. Ed. 

 1768, p. 109), and other old writers, attracted little notice till 

 1853, when Sir Ranald Martin (Lancet, 1853, vol. ii., p. 53) called 

 the attention of the profession to it. Dr. J. Shortt and Dr. J. 

 Newton, as the result of their respective personal experience, 

 report very favourably of its action in dysentery. According to 

 Dr. J. A. Green, a sherbet of the ripe fruit, taken every morning, 

 proves serviceable in the dyspepsia of Europeans, when accom- 

 panied by obstinate constipation and flatulence. He adds that 

 the unripe fruit baked for six hours is a powerful astringent, 

 and as such is used by the natives in dysentery. Dr. B. Bose 

 advocates the daily use of a sherbet of this fruit during 

 cho 1 era epidemics as a prophylactic. At such seasons it is 

 doubtless of service to regulate the bowels carefully, avoiding 

 either constipation or purgation. Dr. G. Bidie (Madras Quart. 



