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at the end of five days had evidently feared the inflammation 
might dest and therefore raised the dressing and renewed the 
baneful appt ication, part of which I found on the face of the 
dressing Pins against the eye. 
*T have been entirely unsuccessful in obtaining here any in- 
formation on the matter, nor have I keen able to obtain further 
he drug became 
exhausted as he in no way interfered with the next collodion 
dressing which was applied, the eye being quite cured, and the 
dressing intact after a period of five day 
A Chinese prescription. Mr. J. Burtt Davy, formerly a member 
of the Kew staff, and now attached to the University of California, 
Berkeley, U.S.A., has presented to the Kew betel the ingredients 
of a Piney prescription purchased by him Sos na Town, 
Franc As is well known, the Chinese ad very large and 
Girad MM esci of products in the preparation of their medicines, 
and Mr. Davy says that, in the drug stores of China Town, one 
ean usually obtain a panacea for all ills, varying in the number of 
A stri according to the price paid (25, 35, or 50 cents). Such 
prescription usually contains a few slice s of the root of 
Gi yeyrrhiza, dried flower-heads of a composite Dunt dried cock- 
oaches, dried cockchafers, and the skin, head and tail of a lizard 
stretched on thin sticks ; an extra five cents will procure a dried 
* Sea horse " ; and yet another five cents a dried fish of peculiarly 
in consequence of their being cut or broken up into small frag- 
ments, but the following occur amongst those brought to Kew. 
Fruit heads of an sig aaa apparently Æ. salen ge This 
plant has a reputatio n China for various diseases, such as 
ophthalmia, Mie paie in neater asa styptic in cd "bleeding, 
and in affections of the kidney. Another ingredie pos 
of identification, eonsists of the spiny hooks “from “thie ste 
complaints. Some very thin transverse sections of the stem 
of Akebia quinata, a climbing berberidaceous plant, also occur 
in small quantities, as well as the bark of Hucommia ulmoides, 
known as the “Tu Chung." Tonic and invigorating properties 
are ascribed to it, and it is said to be valued at as much 
8s. per pound, Though the bark is very thin, it 
is abundantly charged with elastic gum, which can be drawn 
out in silvery threads when it is broken apart. Among other 
ingredients which have not been identified are crushed flower 
heads of a composite plant, and slices of a slender, twig-like 
stem, probably a willow. 
