1 to be exceedingly acrid, bitter and drastic, and has been recom-
2 mended in hepatic affections and dropsy.
3 Triticum sativum — is cultivated, I believe, everywhere in the
4 East as in Europe. Several varieties of wheat are found in Lahore
5 and Cashmere. Bread made from flour with the bran has been
6 recommended against habitual constipation. See Vol. I. p. 70.
7 Tuber ci barium. Ly coper don tuber , Linn. — is not known
8 in the East. There are to be met with at Lahore, hermetically
9 sealed boxes from Europe, containing truffles; with such of a
10 black kind, I made some experiments.
11 Tuberis cibar. conserva (I.) Itching.
12 Turpethum Convolvulus — its root is officinal at Lahore.
13 The Hakims administer turbith in diseases of the mucous mem-
14 brane, as also in paralysis, gout and Indian leprosy ; they often
15 use only the inner substance of the root, and I remarked that
16 turbith is sold in London, without the inner substance, having
17 the appearance as if perforated.
18 Turpeth . alb. rad. pars interior (II.) Headache.
19 Tutia — is officinal at Lahore; the Hakims use tutty in
20 ophthalmia.
21 Tutia (II.)
22 Ultramarine — is used by native painters at Lahore ; they
23 prepare it themselves from the ore (lapis lazuli) brought from
24 Toorkistan, which, however, is rare and dear. This costly pig-
25 ment is not used by the Hakims, but lapis lazuli is recommended
26 in their books in diseases of the mucous membrane and melan-
27 choly, as in Indian leprosy, psorophthalmia, falling of the eye-
28 lashes (ptilose), etc. What I administered was an artificial pre-
29 paration from Paris.
30 Ultramar, artijic. (III.) Ulcers.
31 Umbellifera-B u t a z e r i — is officinal at Cashmere, and
32 vegetates on those mountains. Probably Neogaza or Endressia ?
33 I had several specimens like what is lithographed in full in the
34 plate ; nevertheless, our botanists have not hazarded its classi-
35 fication, nor given it a proper name. Umbellifera is a Genus;
36 Buta , or butee , signifies in Cashmere, plant. Zeri or Zeree is