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2 was, until recently, the case, as too, in Lahore; the cotton which
3 is stopped into the bottle neck is covered with this bark. But,
4 for what use? since the spirits evaporate and even the water is
5 dried up by the excessive heat of Hindostan.
6 Bezoardicum animale — is still held in reputation by the
7 Hakims, as an antidote to poison. The yellow is esteemed the
8 best.
9 Bezoard. an. (I.)
10 Bezoardicum minerale of the Eastern doctors (Padzuhr
11 seeah, Pers. kanee, Zuhr mohra, Ind.) is dark green serpentine.
12 Bezoard. min. (I.)
13 Bignonia Indica — is a tree which grows more luxuriantly in
14 the cold regions of the Himalaya than in the botanical gardens of
15 Hindostan ; and might, probably, grow in the open air of
16 Europe also. At Lahore, I received from the hills a gigantic
17 pod, not less than half-a-yard in length and four inches in
18 breadth ; on opening which, I found numerous thin white seeds,
19 not thicker than ordinary writing-paper, and about three inches
20 in diameter. On holding a seed up to the light, I perceived, in
21 the centre, a kernel not larger than a lentil ( Ervum lens) I
22 cut, with a pair of scissors, such a seed up very fine, then tritu-
23 rated it with sugar, and dissolved it in spirit. I prepared
24 lozenges with it in the usual way.
25 Bignon. Ind. semina (I.) Gonorrhoea. Haematuria.
26 Bilis, v. Fel.
27 Bismuthum (Marcasita) — is unknown to Arabic and Indian
28 doctors. I took with me, from Europe, some Bismuthum nitri-
29 cum precipitatum , or, the so-called Bismuthi (tris) nitras.
30 Magisterium Bismuthi (II.)
31 * Bistorta ( Polygonum ) — is now seldom used by European
32 practitioners, but much by the Hakims. In all probability,
33 the root of this plant sold at the Lahore bazaar, is a Persian
34 product. As Tormentilla and Bistorta are both of them called
35 Unjbar , in some dictionaries, it is very likely that the one is
36 mistaken for the other.
37 Bistort, radix (I.) Borborygmi. Diarrhoea. Gravel.