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The flowers of this beautiful shrub, which were formerly well knowrr 

 under the name of Balaustines, are now Begle6led ; but the rind of the 

 fruit is still considered as one of the most useful medicinal astringents, in 

 cases wherein that quality, simply, is required. This shrub affords another 

 valuable remedy, in the fresh hark of it's root, for the knowledge of which 

 we are indebted to the Hindii physicians. See " An account of an Indiati 

 " remedy for the tape-worm," by Dr. Buchanan, in the Edinburgh Me- 

 dical and Chirurgical Journal, No. IX. p. 2,2o. ,. , 



The Tcenia is not a common disorder in Bengal ; but, since the date of 

 Dr. Buchanan's communication, several cases of it have occurred here, 

 to Dr. Hunter, and to Dr. Shoolbrei?, in which the bark of the pome- 

 granate root was used, with complete success, and without having failed 

 in a single instance. The following is the method in which it is prepared 

 and administered. Eight ounces of the fresh bark of the root are boiled, 

 in three pints of water, to a quart. Of this decp^lion, the patient takes a 

 . wine-glass-ful ; and repeats that quantity, at longer or shorter intervals^ as 

 the sickness and faintnesSj. which it generally occasions, will allow; until 

 he has taken the whole. The worm is commonly voided, in a few hours 

 after the patient has begun to take the medicine; and, not unfrequentlj, 

 . comes away alive. ,;'.,-:- i ;.!,:;;...:. ■....■:.. .^.-.-:^ 



Riciwus Communis. (W. ) ArendS^") M. Eranda, S, 



This plant is cultivated, for both oeconomical and medicinal purposes, 

 over all Hindosta?!. The expressed oil of the seeds, so well known in 

 Europe, under the name of castor oil, is more gerre rally used, as a purga- 

 tive, than any other medicine; and perhaps there is no other, on which we 



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