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2 with fever, weakness of vision, enlargement of the liver and
3 spleen, bloody-fluxes, emaciation, dropsy, gout, stone in the
4 bladder, the plague, bites of serpents and enraged animals,
5 ulcers, etc.
6 What a pity that such a remedy should have been suffered to
7 pass into oblivion !
8 Anagal. ccer. (I.) Epistaxis. Headache with fever.
9 Pain of the spine and hip-joint.
10 * Anchusa officinalis, v. Buglossa.
11 * Anchusa tinctoria, v. Alcanna.
12 Andropogon Iwaranchusa — this grass yields, by distillation,
13 a volatile oil, well-known to both the natives and English phy-
14 sicians in India ; and, by the wealthy, is used, principally, in
15 chronic rheumatism. As it increases the flow of urine and pro-
16 motes sweat, it ought to be tried in cases of cholera, internally
17 as well as externally.
18 Anemone coronaria, L. — is (according to Dr. R. Selig-
19 man’s 66 Liber Fundamentum Pharmacologiae,” etc.) S c ha k a-
20 j ik of the Arabs ; and is used for dying hair. I am of
21 opinion that Schakaik is the Poeonia offic., v. Med. vocab. in
22 this volume.
23 Anemone narcissiflora — grows in the mountains of Cash-
24 mere, as in Europe ; but, neither in Europe, India nor Cash-
25 mere is it used.
26 * Anemone Pulsatilla, v. Pulsatilla.
27 *Anethum Fceniculum, v. Fceniculum.
28 * Anethum graveolens — is cultivated in India, Africa, and
29 Europe. The Hakims administer the dill seeds in flatulency,
30 and believe that they stimulate the secretion of milk.
31 Anethi. grav. semina. (I.)
32 Anethum Sowa, v. Sowa.
33 * Angelica — has not been discovered in the Indian mountains,
34 and is unknown to the inhabitants. In Europe, principally in
35 France, Angelica pills are used and recommended in mucous and
36 bilious complaints, as also in habitual costiveness, flatulency.