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2 Bdellium — is the well-known gum-resin of Commiphora
3 Madagascar ensis , used in Europe as in Asia.
4 Bdellium (ii.) Restlessness with cough. Thoracic pain.
5 Bebeerine — is a vegetable salt used by Europeans only. 1
6 received, from an English physician at Lahore, some of the red-
7 dish crystals of this recently discovered medicine, for trial ;
8 it was given to me as a substitute for quinine in agues ; I, how-
9 ever, in using it in small doses, according to my system, dis-
10 covered different properties in it.
11 Bebeerine (II.) Diarrhoea. Obscurity of vision. Worm-
12 fever.
13 *Beccabunga, v. Veronica Beccabunga.
14 Bedelbish — is unknown at Lahore. I received a sample of
15 this root from the hills. It resembles, and probably is no other
16 than, Aconitum heterophyllum.
17 Bedelbish (II.) Diarrhoea, with or without colic. Sper-
18 matorrhoea.
19 Behen (Been) album et rubrum — are imported into India
20 from Arabia (probably from Syria) and much used by the
21 Hakims. European physicians are well acquainted with both of
22 them, from books, but have long since given up using them.
23 The red ones were formerly used by Europeans as astringents,
24 in diarrhoea and haemorrhage. The white roots were used as an
25 astringent aromatic. The Hakims, however, attribute to both
26 of them, cordial effects, the power of removing tremors and of
27 increasing the spermatic secretion, consequently? acting aphrodisi-
28 acally. The roots are not of different colors merely, but of dif-
29 ferent plants, and, therefore, it seems rational to suppose they
30 possess different properties ; but, experience has taught me that
31 these are somewhat similar: for instance, both of them proved
32 very efficacious in removing itching. The white root must not
33 be confounded with the French behen blanc , the Silene injlata
34 of modern British Botanists.
35 Behen alb. fy Beh. rubr . (I.) Prurigo.
36 Belenia pkacalsa, v. Ilyosciamus pracalsus.
37 Belemnites — are officinal in Arabic medicine. The sample