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ticular Kind of ardent and continual putrid Fe- 
ver, attended with Delirioufnefs and a furprizing 
Perturbation of Mind. For during the Exacer- 
bation, which is ufually four Hours, the Sick 
commonly perform very ridiculous A&ions, being 
for the mod Part fuch as are exerted in their or- 
dinary Employments when in Health. And be- 
fides, in the Delirium , they have a canine Appe- 
tite, greedily devouring whatever Filthinefs is of- 
fered to them. Among the Caufes of this Fever 
he reckons principally the Smell of thefe Trees, 
when newly cut down *, from which, and efpeci- 
ally from their Bark, certain Effluvia are emitted, 
which have fomething in them deleterious and of- 
fenfive to the Brain. 
g. Sant alum rubrum , Offlc. Sant alum rubrum , C. 
B. P. Red Sanders is a folid, denfe, heavy Wood, 
with Fibres in fome Places ftreight, in others tor- 
tuous, refembling the Veftiges of Knots. It is 
the Heart of a T fee brought over to us in large 
Blocks, feparated from the cortical and exterior 
woody Parts, of a dark reddifh, and, as it were, 
blackifh Colour on the outfide, and of a deep Red 
within *, having no fenfible Smell, but in Tafte is 
2c little aftringent and auftere. 
The Tree from which it is got is called Pen - 
Saga. I have met with no Defcription of it in 
any Author, except that Herman fays it bears 
Pods. It grows in Coromandel , a Country of the 
Eajl Indies. 
In the Shops inftead of red Sanders are often 
fubftituted two Sorts of W'ood, which are import- 
ed from the Indies , and from America . The one 
is called Ligno Brajiliano Jimile , feu Lignum fapou 
lanis lingendis fercommodum , C. B. P. and the other 
* is the Lignum Brafilium , J. B. Yet it is eafily 
diftinguifhable from them both in Colour and 
Tafte : 
