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2 Plumbum aceticum crystallisatum. Saccharum saturni
3 — is a preparate unknown to the native doctors of Lahore.
4 Acetate of lead has lately been recommended against spinal
5 irritation, carditis chronica, and angina; as a dry colly rium in
6 ophthalmia ; as a clyster in dysentery, and diarrhoea.
7 Plumb, acet . (in.)
8 Plumbum metallicum — is not used as a medicine ; never-
9 theless lead has its own properties. Applications of carbonate of
10 lead (white lead), mixed with linseed-oil, have lately been recom-
11 mended in burns and scalds.
12 Plumb, met. (I.)
13 Plumbum sulphuretum, v. Galena.
14 Pneumonanthe K u r r o o a, v. Picrorrhiza.
15 Poa laxa (affinis species) — is a kind of grass which grows
16 in Cashmere, and is officinal there.
17 Podophyllum Emodi — grows in the mountains of Cashmere,
18 and is officinal. I used both the leaves and fruit of this plant.
19 Podophyll. folia (I.)
20 Podophyll. fructus (I.) Costiveness.
21 Pceonia corallina — is a product of Arabia. The Greek
22 name of this root, Fabania , misled me in supposing this
23 article Fabaria , the root of Sedum telephinum. The
24 sample I had, was about two inches in length, one inch in
25 diameter, and was broader at one end than the other. Galen
26 says, that the strength of this root increases every year, that
27 it stimulates the secretion of milk, provokes the catamenia, and
28 bilious disorders, for which the Myrobalons are a corrective ; he
29 also says, that the round kind of root is the best.
30 Pceonia (I.) Diarrhoea. Dysury. Expectoration of
31 mucus. Thoracic pain.
32 Polantsia (icosandria ?) — grows at Lahore during the cold
33 season. Its penetrating aromatic odor is agreeable.
34 Polan. herba (I.) •
35 Polan. radix (II.) Lacrymal fistula.
36 Polyanthes TUBF.iiosA — grows at Lahore, and on the hills.
37 The natives sav that its seeds are the white Todree of the
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