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the Pentandrous tribe, under the name of Ophior^ 

 rhiza Mungos^ and is figured in the Materia Me* 

 dica of our author. The root is exhibited in India 

 and in Zeylon, not only as an antidote againft the 

 venorn of this ferpent, but againft the bite of the 

 mad dog, as alfo in putrid fevers. Grimmius^ 

 who lived long as a phyfician at Columbo^ in Zey- 

 lon^ profefTes to have made great ufe of it. Our 

 author fubjoins feveral preparations from this 

 fimple^ and, from hochm\ prefents us with the 

 formula of the famous Lapis de Goa^ in which the 

 Mungos root ftands as the firft ingredient. He con- 

 cludes with an enquiry into the efFeds of the fpu- 

 rious drug of this name, the refult of which fuffici- 

 ently agrees with what is related of the Nux Vomica^ 

 to which genus it is referred according to the fexual 

 fyftem, 



22. Radix Senega, j. Kiernander, 1749. 



As the terror of the Naja is difpelled, in Afia^ by 

 the Ophiorrhiza^ fo is that of the Rattle-Snake^ ia 

 America, by the Senega. After premifmg the hif- 

 tory of the Rattle-Snake, (Crotalus Horridus^ Syft. 

 372.) chiefly borrowed from Catejhy\ Dr. Kiernan- 

 der gives a full botanical and medical hiftory of 

 this famous plant, which for fo long a time the 

 Indians concealed from the Europeans, The au- 

 thor then recites ten different vegetables, of 

 which the Europeans, during their endeavours 

 to come at the true Rattle-Snake root, tried the 

 effeds againft this fubtie venom. Some of thefe 

 are faid to have been not quite unavailing : at 

 length Dr. "Tennent difcovered the fecret, and 



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