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2 seeds, I believe to be an antidote to opium; and their oil
3 (externally) to be useful in cases of poisoning from narcotics. The
4 seeds of all the species, are said to furnish a nutritious substance.
5 Gossyp. herbac. semina (I.) Fever ! Piles ! (mucous
6 or bleeding, with or without anal tumors)
7 Gossypium fulminans — as soon as I received at Lahore the
8 recipe for gun-cotton I prepared some, and tried its properties.
9 Gossyp. fulm. (II.)
10 Goolcheen, v. Gulchin.
11 Gourbooti ( Artemisia ? or Malvacea ?) — branches as
12 thick as quills, having an epidermis or outer rind, as white as
13 cotton. I received them from the lower range of the mountains.
14 Gourbooti , stipites (I.) Giddiness.
15 Granatum (Punica) — its fruit ( Malum Punicum ) pome-
16 granate, as also dried apricots, raisins, grapes, almonds, pistachio-
17 nuts, apples, pears, &c. are brought, yearly, by caravans, from
18 Cabul to India, passing through the Punjab. The pericarp of
19 the pomegranate is much used in tanning, and in dyeing yellow,
20 and is, moreover, medicinally an astringent. The juice of the
21 fruit is administered by the Hakims in atony of the stomach and
22 liver, in violent fever, &c.
23 Granat. ( acidum ) corteoc radicum (I.) Obscurity of
24 vision. Restlessness with itching.
25 Granat. f lores , vel Balausta. Balanistum (I.) Diarr-
26 hoea. Pain in the head of the femur. Peripneu-
27 monia. Thoracic pain with cough.
28 Graphites. Ferrum carbonatum — its use in cutaneous
29 diseases is known to European physicians only ; the Eastern
30 doctors never using percarburet of iron.
31 Graphit (I.) Soreness of the mouth.
32 *Guatiola officinalis — is unknown to the Eastern doctors;
33 I had with me a supply of the tincture from Europe.
34 Gratiot, tinctura (II.) Inflammation or soreness of the
35 mouth.
36 Gkewia Asiatic a — its fruit, or berries, are blackish and of
37 a sweet astringent taste; they ripen in the beginning of the
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