JUNIPERUS SABINA. 
by vertigo. He was given large quantities of milk, which produced' 
vomiting, leeches were applied to the abdomen, and by degrees the 
violent symptoms subsided.* We are told by Fordyce,f that a woman 
was subject to colics for the space of thirty years, in consequence of 
having taken an infusion of the pulp of colocynth prepared with 
beer. When untoward symptoms arise from an over dose of this 
drug, the same mode of treatment should be pursued that we have 
recommended under the articles, Helleborus Niger, Daphne Me- 
zerei^, &c. 
Off. The Pulp of the Fruit. 
Off. Pp. Extractum Colocynthidis, L. 
— — — — — — Comp. L.E. D. 
Pilulje Aloes cum Colocynthide, D. 

JUNIPERUS SABINA. 
Common Savine.% 
Class DicECiA. — Order Monadelphia. 
iVfli. Ord. CoNiFERiE. 
Gen. Char. Male. Amentum ovate . Calyx a. scale. Co* 
rolla none. Stamens three. 
Female. Calyx three-parted. Petals three. 
Styles three. Berry three-sided, irregular, with the tuber- 
cles of the calyx. 
Sfjic. Char. Leaves opposite, erect, decurrent. 
This species § of juniper is a native of the South of Europe and 
the Levant. It w^as first cultivated in Britain about the year 
* We woald observe that a large dose of colocyutb is a popular remedy for the cure 
of gonorrhoea with the vulgar. — Ed. 
t Fragmeuta Chirurg. et Med. p. 66. 
J Fig. h. a male flower. 
§ Sixteen species of the genus Juniperus are cultivated in our botanic gardens, 
(Hort. Cant.) of which two species only are natives of Britain, viz. Juniperus Com- 
mnnis and Juniperus Alpina. — Ed. 
