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by the merchants — those diuretic properties which so 
strongly characterize the fruit of the anacardium in its re- 
cent state. To these products may be added a 7th, the 
nuts, which, after the separation of the caustic oil, would 
be found desirable additions to an English dessert. And, 
Sth, the timber of the trees, after they have ceased to bear, 
and which, from its strength and durability, is extremely 
valuable. 
Hence it is perhaps questionable, whether an acre of 
land planted with cashew trees (which demand little of 
human labour, and that of the least exhausting kind, and 
are not exposed to the innumerable casualties of the cane,) 
would not be found to yield a net produce, upon an average 
of years, superior to that of sugar — especially as land no 
longer suitable for the cane, might be still rendered produc- 
tive as a cashew orchard.— Pharm. Jour. 
ART. XXIX.— ON THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER USED 
IN THE PREPARATION OF INFUSIONS. 
By Mr. Thomas Greenish. 
The most desirable temperature for the water used in 
the preparation of some of the infusions of the Pharmaco- 
poeia, having been casually discussed on several occasions 
at our evening meetings, and my experience inducing me 
to differ from the opinions then expressed, it occurred to me 
that a few remarks on the subject might be productive of 
some benefit, more especially as it has again been adverted 
to in a paper read at the October Meeting, on the subject 
of a National Pharmacopoeia. It is unnecessary before this 
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