1 several experiments. The empyreumatie oil (containing creosote),
2 which is obtained in the dry distillation of coal, is a well-known
3 remedy in gout, paralysis, leucorrhoea, &c.
4 Lithanthr. (I ) Gastric spasm. Rheumatic pain of the
5 neck. Soreness of the mouth, tongue, palate, and
6 fauces. Quinsey with swelling of the neck.
7 Lithahgyrum. Plumbum oocydatum citrinum — is officinal
8 at Lahore. See G u j a.
9 Lithomarge — of Surat, officinal at Lahore (called P a d z ti-
10 ll et suffed or Suffed zuhr mohra) is the white
11 antipharmacum or antitoxicum of the Eastern doctors. The
12 black or dark green P a d z u h r v. Bezoardicum minerale.
13 Lixiva caustica, v. Causticum.
14 Locusta migratoria — swarms of this kind of locust are of
15 frequent and troublesome occurrence at Lahore. It is a remark-
16 able fact, that in the spring of 1835, when the dreadful Cholera-
17 epidemic was raging at Lahore, and had just reached its height,
18 a swarm of travelling locusts arrived there, and from that very
19 day, the epidemic began to decrease. Both cholera and locusts
20 came from the West, and went towards the East. I am of
21 opinion that a particular wind, from the higher atmospheric
22 region, brought them and removed them. Some Mussulmen at
23 Lahore, eat this kind of locust. At Bassora, I saw them ex-
24 posed in the market for sale ; when their heads are taken off and
25 salted, they are eaten by the Arabs. It is recorded, that during
26 the famine at Mussul, the inhabitants dried and ground the
27 locusts, which they then made into bread. As these insects feed
28 on vegetables only, they have nothing repugnant in their interior.
29 I made an essence of them, in the following manner: — I took off
30 their heads, feet, and wings, triturated their bodies, and put
31 the paste, with an equal portion of proof-spirit, into a phial,
32 shook the mixture for a few minutes, and then let it stand to
33 settle; I then decanted the limpid essence, and preserved it in a
34 well-stopped phial, shut up in a box secluded from daylight.
35 Locusteum (I.) Bleeding piles. Thirst.
36 Lotus, v. Nymphca.