THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY. 
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the yellowness of skin from jaundice and kindred affections* 
the yellow hue around the eyes* and this general hue of ill- 
health are all supposed, on the doctrine of signatures* to point 
out Turmeric as a “ sovereign remedy” in such cases, and so it 
is always in an ingredient in the carter’s mixture ; and the 
following is a receipt sent to a shop in the country with a 
plaster horse on one side of the window and a cow of the like 
composition on the other* intimating that horse and cattle 
medicine is a speciality within : — 
j Recipe verbatim . 
Turmeric, 
Diapentey, 
Tennegreek, 
Junction (qy. Gentian), 
Sulphur Brimston of ache a quarter of a pound ; 
Niter, 
Salt Peters 2 ounces. 
Take a table spoonvul evry day to fine the Cwoat. 
Summer weather and extra attention bring about the 
result, and then the carter thinks himself the cleverest 
fellow on earth* and fancies he “ kneows a thing or two mwor 
nor thaay vetranies.” 
But our business is with Turmeric* and what has the 
possessor of the plaster horse and cow supplied for this 
article ; simply such powdered Turmeric as would be sup- 
plied by the wholesale house for such purpose ! Alas* no ! 
but this* further mixed with bean flour and yellow ochre ! 
The Turmeric has no place in Professor Tuson’s f Veterinary 
Pharmacopoeia ;’ but it is yet largely sold by the country 
druggist — on the drug part of the shop for cattle and pigs* 
and on the grocer side as a colouring matter* in lieu of 
saffron, as even our hot cross-bun is coloured with the 
cheaper article. 
The genus Ammomum contains several species of plants* 
the seeds of which are employed as stimulants and aromatics* 
amongst them the A. Cardamomum and A. granum-para- 
disi — Cardamomums and grains of Paradise. 
The first of these has a position in the ‘ Physician’s 
Veterinarian’s Pharmacopoeia*’ for as stated by Tuson in the 
following : — 
“ Characters . — Seeds obtusely angular, corrugated, red- 
dish-brown, internally white, with a warm, aromatic* 
agreeable taste and odour ; contained in ovate-oblong* tri- 
angular* pale brown, coriaceous pericarps.” 
The seeds are directed to be kept in the pericarps from 
which they are removed for use. They are employed in the 
