1 blistering; and is recommended chiefly in chronic rheumatism,
2 goutv affections, paralysis, Stc. In France am! -Russia it ..■> used
3 in Ophthalmy. May not Sunnerkat , from Cashmere, have
4 similar properties. (?)
5 Dap/in# Sunnerkat. (IT.)
6 *JDaeon?ca. Duronieum scorpioides Lit; n —is used by Arabian
7 and Indian doctors. The .Hakims administer it against palpita¬
8 tion of the heart, bites of serpents, flatulency, pain in the womb,
9 &c. and the Hindoos believe that if but worn next the skin, it will
10 facilitate delivery. Set Vol. 1 p. 84.' Sirychnoa Fuba, St. Jtjnatii.
11 Daron. radio (I.) (postiveness, General debility
12 JDayisca Cannajuna— is aimed) nt in the valley of Cashmere.
13 The bark of the root of this plant is used there as a dye.
14 Datisc. Cannab, radieu cortex semen (f.) The
15 former: Dryness of the tongue. Inflammatory
16 swellings. Pain in the knee. Toothache. The
17 latter: Syphilitic ulcer.
18 Datura martis.— A combination of iron anil daturine, 1 use
19 under the denomination datura, martin. When a solution of
20 sulphate of iron (green vitriol) is added to an infusion of the
21 prickly apple-seeds (I used aemina T)a tierce Fatuosa ) a precipitate,
22 is the.result, which, when dried, is the above-mentioned medicine.
23 Datura mart. (IIL) Headache. I lemicrauia.
24 ♦Datura Stc ammonium —vegetates not in India; but, in its
25 stead Datura fatuosa # olba, which have very similar proper¬
26 ties, grow all over Hindustan. Their leaves, seeds and roots, are
27 VU setl by the natives. Daturin , see Tabaeum.
28 Daturan Jlorcsy folia dr aemina (II.) The former two,
29 in afresh state: Ilctnaialopia. The last: Vertigo,
30 Convulsions.
31 *Daucus Cai ota, v. Carota
32 Dials i n g -is the name of a certain Hindoo of the hills,
33 from whom I obtained many of the mountain products of the
34 lower range, and those which my experiments have not enabled
35 „u to ascertain fully, but which T may yet live to examine still
36 further, I have retained Under the appellation Dml-inp--