1 vas, until recently, the case, too, in, Lahore; the cotton which
2 is stopped into the bottle neck is covered with this hark. But,
3 lor what use? since the spirits evaporate and even the water is
4 dried lip by the excessive heat of Hindustan.
5 He j5 q a uni (.: o m an t male— is still held in reputation, by the
6 Hakims, as an antidote to poison. The yellow is esteemed the
7 ymty y v'h.r.;v. ; '
8 Bexoard. an. (Q .
9 JIIkzoak oicuM minerals of the Eastern doctors (Padzuhr
10 seeah, Pjers. kanee, Zuhr mohra. Inch) is dark green serpentine.
11 Bezoard min. (I.)
12 Bigmonia Iniuca— is a tree which grows more luxuriantly iu
13 the cold regions of the Himalaya than in the botanical gardens, of
14 ITmdostau; and might, probably, grow in the open air of
15 Europe also. At Lahore. I received from the hills a gigantic
16 pod, not less than half-award in length and four inches in
17 breadth; on opening which, I found numerous thin white seeds,
18 not. thicker than ordinary writing-paper, and about ihree inches
19 in diameter. On holding a seed up to the light, i perceived, in
20 the centre, a kernel not larger than a lentil ( Ervum lens) I
21 cut, with a pair of scissoft), such a seed up very Hue, then tritu¬
22 rated it with sugar, and dissolved it in spirit. T prepared
23 lqzenges with it in the usual way.
24 Bignon. lnd, semina (I.) Gonorrhoea. Hamiaturia.
25 Bu.is v. FeL
26 Bismuthvm ( Marcaaita )—is unknown to Arabic and Indian
27 doctors. I took with me, from Europe, some JBmnuthum nitri-
28 i)im predpitntum, or, the so-called Bwnuthi (t-ru) nitrm.
29 Muyifiteriun? Tiisvnithi (II.)
30 * BisroRTA {Polygonum )—is now seldom used !»j European
31 practitioners, but. much by the Hakims. In nil probability,
32 thl root of this plant sold at the Lahore bazaar, is a Persian
33 product. As TormentiBa and Biatorta are both of them called
34 Unibar , in some dictionaries, it is very likely that the one i.-
35 mistaken for the other.
36 Bistort rndi.v (I.) Borhorygtni. Diarrhnca Gravel.