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2 bazaar. They readily split into transparent elastic flakes, and
3 consist of nearly equal parts of silica and magnesia, and about
4 six per 100 of lime. (Beng. Disp.) I used both the white and
5 the black mica, which have remarkable and almost similar effects
6 on the auditory organs.
7 Talc, album (I.) Diarrhoea with emaciation. Dyspepsia.
8 Fever. Pain in the liver. Pain in the ear, with dis-
9 charge. Tingling in the ear, with difficulty of hearing.
10 Talc, nigrum (I.) Difficulty of hearing and tingling
11 in the ear. Distension. Pain in the ear, with puru-
12 lent discharge. Spinal pain.
13 Tamarindi — the fruit of Tamarindus Indica , Linn, is
14 much used by the natives of the East, in internal heat and
15 melancholy.
16 Tamarindi (I.) Diarrhoea.
17 Tama hi x Indica — grows in the Punjab and in Cashmere.
18 The galls are officinal, and are exported from Cashmere.
19 Tamaric. gallce. (I.)
20 Tanacetum vulgare — vegetates in Cashmere, where it is
21 officinal.
22 Tannin — Tannic and gallic acids are unknown to the
23 native doctors of Lahore. They, however, use them in the
24 gall-nuts, in the Bengal kino, etc. without recognising them
25 effective parts, or knowing how to separate them. Tannin
26 has lately been recommended in ophthalmia, carcinoma, spasmus
27 giottidis, phthisis tuberculosa, hooping-cough, etc. as also a
28 solution of tannate of alumina, as an injection, in mucous or
29 purulent discharges from the genitals, and tannate of quinine
30 in ague.
31 Taraxacum ( Leontodon ) — is officinal in Cashmere, where it
32 grows ; its leaves are eaten by the natives. The derivation of
33 Taraxacum is from the diarrhoea and gripings, which sometimes
34 are produced by it. Brunswick Mumme (a kind of beer), said to
35 contain dandelion, is now recommended by speculative merchants
36 in London as useful in cases of weakness, complaints of chest,
37 rheumatism, etc.