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NAT, ORDER. EUPHORBIACE^. 
by the Hindoo doctors among those medicines which they conceive 
to possess virtues in altering and correcting the habit in cases of 
cachexia, and in old venereal complaints attended with anomalous 
symptoms. There is reason to believe that the timber imported 
from the coast of Africa into Europe, under the name of African 
Teak, belongs to some tree of this order. From a species of a tree, 
stated by Mr. Brown to be an unpublished genus, it is said that a 
substance resembling caoutchouc is procured from it. Euphorbia 
corollata possesses, according to Rafinesque, emetic, cathartic, dia- 
phoretic, expectorant, astringent, rubefacient, blistering and stimula- 
ting properties. It is reckoned equivalent to the officinal Ipecac. It 
purges at the dose of three to ten grains, and vomits at ten to twenty. 
