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ftones, had we not fhewn him the eafier and more expedi- 

 tious way of powdering it in a mortar. 



The firft doze I took was about a heaped tea-fpoonful 

 In a cup of camel's milk ; I took two of thefe in a day, 

 and then in the morning a tea-cup of the infufion in camel's 

 milk warm. It was attended the firft day with a violent 

 drought, but I was prohibited from drinking either water 

 or bouza. I made privately a drink of my own ; I took a 

 little boiled water which had flood to cool, and in it a fmali 

 quantity of fpirits. I after ufed fome ripe tamarinds 

 in water, which I thought did me harm. I cannot fay 

 I found any alteration for the firft day, unlefs a kind of 

 hope that I was growing better, but the fecond day I found 

 myfelf fenfibly recovered. I left off laudanum and ipeca- 

 cuanha, and refolved to truit only to my medicine. In 

 looking at my journal, I think it was the 6th or 7th day 

 that I pronounced myfelf well, and, though I had returns 

 afterwards, I never was reduced to the neceilky of taking 

 one drop of laudanum, although before I had been very 

 free with it. I did not perceive it occafioned any extraor- 

 dinary evacuation, nor any remarkable fymptom but that 

 continued thirfT, which abated after it had been taken fome 

 time. 



In the courfe of my journey through Scnnaar, I faw that 

 all the inhabitants were well acquainted with the virtues of 

 this plant. I had prepared a quantity pounded into powder, 

 and ufed it fuccefsfully everywhere. I thought that the 

 mixing of a third of bark with it "produced the effect more 

 fpeedily, and, as we had now little opportunity of getting 

 milk, w r e made an infuiion in water. I tried a fpiritous 



tincture, 



