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Dose — Two ounces to be taken three times a clay. 



The decoction is of a light brown colour, and of an intensely bitter 

 taste, like Quinine. It may be given in all stages of fever. When taken 

 during a febrile paroxysm, it should be given in three ounce doses. It will 

 be found to abate the severity of the symptoms, — it shortens the paroxysms, 

 and hastens the cure. 



Sometimes nausea and vomiting occur after taking a dose of the decoc- 

 tion. This effect will be found rather to favour the recovery of the patient 

 than otherwise. — In such instances the dose of the decoction should be les- 

 sened to one ounce, and repeated at greater intervals, or it may be given 

 during the paroxysm only. In recent cases the fever is generally speedily 

 subdued by the decoction. 



The infusion of this wood may be used at all times as a general tonic,' 

 and is a perfect substitute for the infusion of Quassia, in the following 

 form : — 



Take two drachms of the rasped wood, one pint of boiling water ; infuse 

 for two hours in a covered vessel, and strain. 



Dose. — One ounce, as a bitter tonic to improve the appetite and invigo- 

 rate the system. 



It is of a bight lemon colour, and a good vehicle for the administration 

 of iron, iodide of potash, &c, &c. 



Government Civil Hospital, Colombo, January, 1862. 



NEW INDIAN PRODUCTS AT THE EXHIBITION OF 1862. 



BY M. C. COOKE, F.S.S. 



It is impossible, within the limits of two or three pages, and at this 

 early stage, to do justice to the Indian collection, superior as it is to that 

 Department in 1851, and interesting beyond the Exhibitions of either 1851 

 or 1855, from the closer association of India with the British crown. In 

 the event of a continuance of the civil war in America, and an untoward 

 success to the rebel arms in China, we are taught by the present Exhibition 

 that India can supply us with cotton, tobacco, and tea, sufficient to com- 

 pensate us for the deficiencies which those events might occasion. What 

 may be necessary to ensure such a supply does not fall within our province 

 at this juncture to indicate. The fact that three hundred samples of tea 

 are shown, and more than a hundred of cotton, with some tobacco, are 

 features not to be forgotten in passing through the Indian collection. 



Starchy products, though not numerous, present two or three novelties. 

 A kind of arrowroot from a plant growing wild in Cuttack is of very good 

 quality. The manufacture has been but recently introduced into that 

 province, and is conducted in a remarkably simple manner. This product, 

 which is known in the bazaars under the name of Palvoa, is collected by 



