1 Sarsap. (I.) Diarrhoea. Red and scalding urine.
2 (Alternately Mezereum) Mercurial-syphilitic pain.
3 Sarsaparilla extract , Hulsas of Agra. Soreness of the
4 mouth.
5 Sassafras — is not known to the native doctors of Lahore.
6 It is said to be an excellent diaphoretic.
7 Satyrium, v. Salep.
8 Saxifraga K o l t — is a seed from the hills. According to
9 Piddington's Index Plantarum , it is Kolt Saxifraga ,* but in
10 the Bengal Dispensatory is Kooltoo, Fagopyrum.
11 Saxifraga ( Adiantum ? ligulata ? Wall.) Peshant — is
12 a root from the mountains of Cashmere ; well known, but little
13 used by the inhabitants.
14 Saxifrages Peshant radix (I.) Coryza. General pains.
15 Sc ammonium. Scammonium ( Convolvulus ) — its gum-resin
16 is officinal at Lahore ; but the genuine or pure drug is seldom to
17 be had.
18 Scammon. (II.) Dysury. Pain in the chest, stomach
19 and bowels.
20 Scilla, v. Squilla.
21 Scincus. Lacerta Scincus, Linn. (Stincus, according to
22 some, not so proper) — is still used by the Eastern doctors. It
23 has been recommended in leprosy.
24 Scincus (I.)
25 Scolopendra morsitans — is often to be met with at Lahore,
26 where the natives regard its bite as noxious ; and in medicine it is
27 never used. Scolopendrineum is prepared in a similar manner to
28 other animal substances, with alcohol, and kept as an essence,
29 Scorpius — Scorpions are abundant at Lahore, mostly of a
30 small size; such are regarded as less dangerous than the large
31 black scorpions, which are more abundant on the hills, and at
32 Pishawur. Their poison is in the last joint of the tail, the seat
33 of the sting. Sometimes I used the dry virus from dead scor-
34 pions, when I could not procure a fresh animal. In both cases,
35 I cut the last joint of the tail with a pair of scissors (a joint of