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APPENDIX. 



■Cuflb flowers in about two Englifh quarts of bonza, or the 

 beer they make from tefF; after it has been fleeped all night, 

 the next morning it is fit for ufe. During the time the pa- 

 tient is taking the CufTo, he makes a point of being invili- 

 ble to all his friends, and continues at home from morning 

 till night. Such too was the cuftom of the Egyptians upon 

 taking a particular medicine. It is alledged that the wane of 

 this drug is the reafon why the Abyflinians do not travel, 

 or if they do, moil of them are fhort-lived. 



The feed of this is veryfmall, more fo than the femen 

 fantonicum, which feems to come from a fpecies of worm- 

 wood. Like it the -Cuflb iheds its feed very eafily ; from this 

 circumftance, and its fmallnefs, no great quantity of the 

 feed is gathered, and therefore the flower is often fubftitu- 

 ted. It is bitter, but not nearly fo much as the femen fan- 

 tonicum. 



The Cuflb grows feldom above twenty feet high, very 

 rarely flraight, generally crooked or inclined. It is planted 

 always near churches, among the cedars which furroand 

 them, for the ufe of che town or village. Its leaf is about 

 q.% inches long, divided into two by a flrong rib. The two 

 divifions, however, are not equal, the upper being longer 

 and broader than the lower ; it is a deep unvarnilhed gxzen, 

 exceedingly pleafant to the eye, the fore part covered with 

 foft hair or down. It is very much indented, more fo than 

 a nettle-leaf, which in fame jne.afu.re it refembles, only is 

 par rower and longer. 



These leaves grow two and two upon a branch ; between 



gach two are the rudiments of two pair of young ones, pre- 



$ pared 



