1 I’d NK Gh \X t a v Grav/atnm.
2 *Py kkthrum {Anncyriua, Anthvm-in )—vegetates on the Cash-
3 merean mountains - it. may perhaps prove a new secies? It
4 surely cannot be the .Pellitory of Spain of which I give a litho¬
5 graphic drawing. Its root cures salivation, by acting upon the
6 salivary glands; hut, it produces salivation when administered
7 in a large dost*.
8 The following Eluiriurn odontalyicum has been recom¬
9 mended, and is recorded instantly to relic •: toothache. “ Essence
10 of pellitory of Spain two parts; camphorated ether two parts*,
11 liquid laudanum of Sydenham one part ; when mixed, apply
12 some drops on white cotton ”
13 Vyrethri radlr (I.) Pain in the joints.
14 1’vhot.a ( ChimaphiUa) umbki.lata.— WintergreeH is not
15 known to the native doctors at Lahore. European physicians
16 administer this plant as a diuretic, in dropsy, gout, and urinary
17 diseases; us also in chronic pulmonary catarrh, ague, scrofula,
18 etc. It seems desirable to try the effect of this useful medicine
19 in small doses, I lvad not any to experiment upon.
20 Quassia amara— is not officinal with the natives of Lahore.
21 This bitter has been recommended in cholera morbus.
22 Querois in rector i a, v. Co Ha T .
23 *Quercos (W hur) & Q. incetnu & Q. Battuta —the acorns
24 are used by the Hakims, who probably receive; them from
25 Persia. A corns, have lately been recommended under Palavmd
26 (not Takmud) in qHronic diarrhoea, especially in children, and
27 are much need in Turkey, where they are prepared in the follow¬
28 ing manner— “ Peeled acorns are buried for three or four weeks
29 in the earth, by which operation they lose their bitterness; they
30 are then freed from the adherent particles of earth, gently roasted,
31 and ground in lmndmills.”
32 Quf Rons So BEK, v. Stiber.
33 Quix.® sui.phas, v. (7hinite fntIp/ia«.
34 Hama ksgorknta— frogs are abundant n* Lahore, in the
35 rainy season. The esculent kinds of them are recommended fn
36 those who are subject to hemorrhoids. Spermn rnnarum