1 Lagonichia. Be they what they may, they are decidedly very
2 useful in medicine ; and it is lamentable, that even our so-called
3 naturalists and learned physicians , do not know, nor can
4 they agree as to what it is, but leave its use to the natives.
5 Cassia Kharn. N. (I.) Affections of the throat. In-
6 flammation of the cervical glands. Inguinal pain.
7 Pain in the renal region. Swelling of the face.
8 Wandering pain.
9 Cassia (Laurus) cortex. Cassia lignea. Cassia Cinna-
10 momum. Laurus Culilawan. Laurus Malahathrum. — These
11 different Cassia-barks, vary but little from each other, and are
12 used one for the other, and are to be had everywhere.
13 Cass. lign. corteco (I ) Costiveness. Squamae.
14 Cassi.e (Laurus) folta, or Cassice Tamala fol. — are used
15 by Eastern doctors.
16 Cass. Laur ., or Tamal. folia (I.) Cholera morbus.
17 (Edematous swellings. Salivation.
18 Cassia Tora — its seeds are officinal at Lahore, where the
19 Hakims use them in cases of external violence, gout, pain in the
20 joints, sciatica, &c.
21 Cass. Tora semina (I.) Itching eruption of patches.
22 Castoreum — is well-known to the Hakims, but very seldom
23 used by them ; I could not find it in the bazaar at Lahore, but,
24 procured it from Calcutta.
25 Castor. (II.)
26 Cataracteum — I prepared from a fresh opaque crystalline
27 lens, cut from a human eye (in an operation for cataract) triturated
28 with ten grains of white sugar, and dissolved in one drachm of
29 proof-spirit. This essence I preserved, like other animal pre-
30 parations, in a closed box, renewing it from time to time.
31 Cataract. (I.)
32 Catechu. Terra Japonica — improperly called ; for, it is
33 not an earth , but the extract of Acacia Catechu of East India.
34 It is much used by Eastern doctors and by European physicians.
35 Catechu entractum (II.) Tenesmus.
36 Carthartocaupus, v. Cassia, Fistula.