1 LA(ibNrcHxr specirs, Cassia Karn ob N ub tec.
2 ^Laminaria SACctiARiNA—(spec.) is officinal at Lahore and
3 in Cashmere. The frouds are procured from Thibet, where they
4 are reported to grow in a salt-lake; but, some English phy¬
5 sicians maintain, that they are brought from the Caspian Sea:
6 whatever their origin may b >, they are certainly very useful;
7 owing, perhaps, to their abounding in Iodine; indeed they arc
8 administered in the very diseases, in which Iodine proves effica¬
9 cious— as in the enlargement of the thyroid gland (goitre) and
10 scrofula. The dried leaves look as if they were salted; some
11 of them are many yards in length, and one or two inches in
12 breadth. In the Indian Ocean, not far from the Cape, I saw,
13 on cur homeward passage, some sea-weed which somewhat
14 resembled Laminaria in form. Our Captain (an Englishman)
15 would not permit any passenger to keep such a weed in iiis
16 cabin, pretending that its odor was injurious to health.
17 Lamin. KOCch. (I.) Auot exin. Dyspepsia. Fever.
18 Ichorous and scrofulous ulcers, even in horses.
19 Lippitude. Oppression of the stomach. .Soreness
20 of the corners of the mouth. Subsultus of the
21 stomach. Tenesm u s.
22 Lapm Akmknius, v. Dolus Armenius.
23 Lapis Bkzoaudtcus, v. Bezoardicus lapis.
24 Lapis cAOs+wtis alcalinus, v. Causticum.
25 Laci s inpewnai is, v. Argentum nitricum fusmn.
26 Lapis Laziju, v. Ultramarine.
27 Lapis Magnus, v. Magnet es, lapis.
28 Lauuus Cassia; L. Culilmean; /.. Malabatn , v. Cassia
29 lignea.
30 Lav airs nojultr- the berries are officinal tit Lahore, and are,
31 probably, imported from Arabia.
32 Lawsonja rxERMrs. Law son hi spinosa , f.hm .—the plant
33 grows at Lahore, and its leaves are officinal all over the East.
34 It is used as a medicine, as well as a dye. See Vol. I. pp. 4,
35 and 167. Its root is, T believe, less used ; at any rate, it is less
36 used at Lahore.
37 VOL. II.