1 Sor.ntp. (i.) Diarrhoea. Bed and . scalding urine.
2 (Alternately Mezereum) Merctuial-syplnTitic pain..
3 Sarsup'trUla e.vtmct, Hulsas of Agra. Soreness of the
4 mouth.
5 Sassafras —is not • known to the native doctors of Lahore.
6 It is said to bo an excellent diaphoretic.
7 Satykiuai, v. Salep.
8 Saxifiuga K o t, t—M a seed from the hills. According to
9 Piddirtg fan's hidtcc Plnntanm., it is Kolt Su.rifraga; but jp
10 the Bengal Dispensatory is Kooitoo, Fir'gopyrnm,
11 Saxifuaga (Adianfum? liqulala? Walt.) Peah'ant — is
12 a root from the mountains of Cashmere; well known, but little
13 used by the inhabitants.
14 Saaifragte Peskant radix (I.) Coryza General pains.
15 Sc a m mon n; m. Scammdni urn (1 Con voltwins) —its gu m-resin
16 i.- officinal at Lahore; but the genuine or pure drug is seldom to
17 be had. .
18 S'eammov. (II.) Dysnry Pain in the chest, stomach
19 and bowels.
20 Seim. a, v. Sqnilla.
21 Scjn’ccs. Lacerta Scincus, Linn. (Slincus, according to
22 some, not so proper)—is still used by the Eastern doctors. It
23 has been recommended in leprosy.
24 Seine ns (I.)
25 Scoi.opeNura mousitaxs— is often to he met with at Lahore,
26 where the natives regard its bite as noxious; and in medicine it is
27 never used. Seolopendrineutn is prepared in a similar maimer to
28 other animal substances, with alcohol, and kept as an essence.
29 ScoRi'ios —Scorpions are abundant at Lahore, mostly of a
30 small si/v ; such are regarded as less dangerous than the large
31 black scorpions, which are more ahundtont on the hills, and at
32 Pishawur. Their poison is in the last joint of the tail, the seat
33 of the sting. Sometimes 1 used the dry virus from dead scor¬
34 pions, when i could not procure a fresh animal. In both cases,
35 I cut the gst joint of the tail with a pair of scissors (a joint of