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despique (spikenard), and tincar (borax), to Amadabar (Ahmadabad), 
and Cambaiete (Cambay) wbence, it is exported throughout Asia to 
Europe and parts of Africa. Garcia maintains that there was but one 
kind, and that it was only produced in India notwithstanding that 
writers have described varieties as though they came from Syria and 
Arabia. 
In describing the Chinese, of whom he gives an excellent character, 
Garcia says that " the art of printing was always in use there, and it 
is not in the memory of man among them by whom it was invented," 
to which Euano replies that the inventor was from Hungary, or the 
country to the north which is said to border upon China. 
[Eeferences. — Linschoten, ii., pp. 129-130 ; Bontius and Fiso, 
lib. iv., p. 46; Ainslie, i., p. 167; ir., p. 165. 
(2) Cholehico Passio [Cholera]. 
Called 7norxi in India, corruptly mordexi by the Portuguese ; 
hachai%a by the Arabs ; saida^ according to Rasis. 
Garcia says that those attacked seldom survive twenty-four hours. 
A patient whom they visited was prescribed for as follows : — To get 
no water to drink, or, if any, some in which heated gold had been 
quenched ; to have his feet cauterized with hot irons, and an emetic 
and a clyster administered, his body to be anointed with warm oil ; 
and to drink chicken broth flavoured with cinnamon, rose water, coral, 
and gold. Garcia does not record whether the patient survived this 
treatment. 
Other drugs which he mentions as being of specific efficacy in 
cholera are he%oar, triaga, sumac, &c. 
[References. — Linschoten, i., pp. 235, 236 ; ii., p. 22 ; Bontius and 
Fiso, lib. ii., p. 21 ; AinsUe, i., pp. 82, 93, 304 ; ii., p. 531 ; Khory, 
pp. 106, 239, 280.] 
COLLOQUY XYIII. 
(1) Da ceisocola (2) e ceoco Ijstdiaco (que e acaeeao da India) 
(3) e das cuecas. 
(1) Crisocola (or Borax). 
Garcia says it is called tincar in Arabic (the Arab name is luruh or 
boraga, and tinhara or tanlcara the Persian; it is called tinJcal in 
India). 
Garcia says borax is little used in India for medicinal purposes, but 
for the teeth and in the cure of the itch and in surgery it is employed 
