Thirty-five years in the East. Adventures, discoveries, experiements, and historical sketches, relating to the Punjab and Cashmere; in connection with medicine, botany, pharmacy, etc. Together with an original materia medica; and a medical vocabulary, in four European and five eastern languages:

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2Stcechad. Arab, hevba (I.) Giddiness. Nebulous vision

3from incipient amaurosis, with running from the

4eyes.

5Stcechas Cashmereana — grows at Cashmere, and is there

6officinal.

7S tor ax, v. Sty rax.

8Strammonia, v. Datura Stramonium.

9Strontium — is unknown to the Lahore doctors. What I

10used was from Europe —

11S trout, nitrat. (II.) Cough.

12Strychninum — is unknown to the Eastern native doctors. It

13has lately been stated, that the antidote of strychnine and nux

14vomica is Kermes.

15Strychn. (III.) Involuntary passing of urine during

16sleep.

17Strychnos Faba Sancti Ignatii — is officinal at La-

18hore. The Sadoos (peddling druggists) hawk the beans of

19Ignatia amara , which are exported from Hindostan to La-

20hore.

21Strych. F. St. Ign. (II.) Acute rheumatism. Hepatitis,

22acute or chronic. Patches with burning pain and

23pricking. Plague. Rheumatic shifting pains. Rheu-

24matic toothache. Soreness of the mouth. Spinal

25pain. Syphilitic pain.

26Stiiychnos (nux) potatorum — is officinal at Lahore.

27Washers and laundresses use the clearing-nut to clear the water.

28By rubbing the nuts round the inside of pots, the impurities

29quickly fall to the bottom, the water is clarified, and rendered

30tasteless and wholesome. These nuts are very hard, and destitute

31of poisonous qualities.

32Strych. nux potat. (I.) Giddiness and obscurity of

33vision. Headache with running from the eyes.

34Inguinal hernia.

35Strychnos nux vomica — is officinal, and much used at

36Lahore. The Hakims administer this nut roasted in hot ashes.

37The essence of nux vomica has been recommended in asthenic