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properties ; hence, it is recommended in diarrhoea,* cholera mor- 
bus, general debility, and in certain stages of phthisis; it has also 
been found useful in allaying nervous irritability, for strengthening 
the digestive organs, and for allaying the nausea and vomiting which 
accompany pregnancy, and in the low stage of puerperal fever.f 
It is also an excellent remedy in dyspepsia. Calumba root may be 
given in powder, in doses of from fifteen to thirty grains, three or 
four times a day ; or in the form of infusion, either alone, or in com- 
bination with aromatics, opiates, neutral or alkaline salts, according 
to circumstances. 
Off. The Root. 
Off. Pp, Infusum Calumbae, L. E. 
Tinctura Calumbae, L. E. D. 
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VITIS VINIFERA. 
The Vine.^ 
Class Pentandria. — Ord. Monogynia, 
Nat. Ord. Hederace^, Linn. Vitis, Juss. 
Gen. Char. Petals cohering at the apex, shrivelling. 
J^erry fire- sided, superior. 
Spec. Char. Leaves sinuous, lobed, serrated. 
The records of the Vine are as ancient as the records of the world 
itself, and its well known produce, wine, seems to have been coeval 
with the cultivation of the fruit, since we read in the Mosaic history, 
that "Noah began to bean husbandman, and he planted a vineyard. 
* By the natives of Mosambique, and also by those at a remote distance, this root 
is considered almost a specific for every disorder of long standing, bat more espe- 
cially for dysentery and venereal disorders. 
t Vide Denman's Introduction to Midwifery, vol. ii. p. 524. 
X Fig. o. the corolla, idagnified. b, A magnified anther, c. Flowers of the uata- 
r size. 
