224 Medicinal Properties of Thistle Oul. 
myself of the knowledge of this fact, I am certain that 
thousands who read this will, through this illustration, 
have my name inseparably connected with the objects 
used. Thus, while apparently I have been merely illustra- 
ting the application of a principle in fixing a fact, I have 
simultaneously, to thousands of minds, rendered St. Paul’s 
Cathedral—that fane of Fame, to be associated with which 
so many celebrities have aspired in vain—a stupendous 
monument to the “Stokes, of Memory, and, in time to 
come, to the Memory of Stokes !” 
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NOTES ON THE MEDICINAL. PROPERTIES SOF 
THISTLE-OIL, OR OIL EXTRACTED Tia 
THE SEED OF THE ARGEMONE MEXTOZe 
BY E. BONAVIA, M.D. 
Civil Assistant-Surgeon, Lucknow. 
ABOO Kanny Loll Dey, in his paper about indigenous 
drugs, published in the ‘Indian Medical Gazette’ — 
(No. 7, of Ist July last, page 197), has given a faint idea of 
the medicinal properties of the oil of Arxgemone Mexicana, 
Linn. (called in Bengal She-al Kanta, and in Upper India 
Karwah). Wewas not aware that a number of experi- 
ments have been made in Oudh, which prove it to be a 
