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deed we cannot but obferve, that without allow- 

 ing them to exid elfewhere than in the inteflines of 

 animals, it is exceedingly difficult to account for 

 the locality of the difeafe arifing from thefe worms. 



We cannot enlarge on this treatife confident 

 with our plan it mull be fufficient to obferve, 

 that this dilfertation, befides being in itfelf highly 

 fatisfadlory, may be confidered as an inde^c alfo 

 to thofe writers that are mofl worthy of being con- 

 fulted on the fame fubjed. 



21. Lignum CoLUBRiNUM. J, A, Barelius. 1749. 



This is a critical enquiry to determine the fpe- 

 cies of that drug called Lignum Colubrinum^ which 

 it is faid the Indian Ichneumon^ Weefel^ or MungoSy 

 (Viverra Ichneumon^ ^. Lin. Syft. 63.) firft point- 

 ed out to the Indians, This wood the Zeylanefe 

 ufe as an antidote to the poifon of the Hooded 

 Serpent, or Naja^ called alfo Cohra de Capello ; 

 (Coluber Ndja^ Syft. 382.) of which K^mpfer hsis 

 given fo extenfive an hiftory, as the moft poifon- 

 ous of all ferpents. Darelius prefixes to his en- 

 quiry the hiftory of both thefe animals, of which 

 too m.any marvellous things have been related ; 

 he then examines into the pretenfions of that drug, 

 which had ufually been fold in Europe under the 

 name of Lignum Coluhrinum^ (fee DaUs Pharmacol . 

 kg. p. 358.) which is the Strychnos Colubrina^ 

 Spec. Plant. 271. and rejeds its claim, inclining 

 at length to beftow it on the plant defcribed by 

 K^empfer^ under the name of Radix Mungo^ p; 557. 

 This plant was received into the Syftem among 



the 



