552 MALACCA HEDGEHOG. 
fects in fevers and various other disorders of a 
malignant nature. 
In order to experience the effect of this wonder- 
ful concrete, Avhich is commonly about the size of 
a small walnut, round, smooth, and of a reddish 
brown coloui% nothing more was necessary than 
to infuse it for some minutes in a glass of wine, 
water, or other hquor, which was by this method 
impregnated with all its virtues, and administered 
to the patient. The truth is, that, being a biliary 
concretion, found in the gall-bladder, it is in- 
tensely bitter, and being soluble in Avater, im- 
pregnates the fluid with its bitterness and with 
supposed aperient, stomachic, and alexipharmic 
virtues. 
These concretions, which have now lost their 
consequence, and are regarded merely as curious 
specimens of the old materia medica, were once 
so esteemed as to have been sold, when large and 
perfect, for the sum of five hundred crowns. 
END OF VOLUME 1. 
London : Printed by T. Davison^ Lombard-%treet. 
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