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2 Violce ( Cashm .) confectio (I.) Prurigo.
3 ♦Viola tricolor. Jacea — is unknown to the Eastern doctors.
4 I used an essence prepared in Europe.
5 Viol, tricol. tinctura (I.) Fever and internal heat.
6 *Viscum album — mistletoe is abundant in Cashmere on wal-
7 nut and other trees, particularly in the Eastern part of the
8 Valley. The Hakims administer it against enlargement of the
9 spleen, in wounds, tumors, ulcerations in the ear, etc.
10 Vi tex Negundo — grows in Lahore, and is officinal there.
11 Vitic. Neg. folia (I.) Diarrhoea. Gastric-nervous fever.
12 Nasal ulcer. Pain in the calves. Pleuritic pain in
13 the left side. Salivation.
14 Vitic. Neg. semina (I.) Inflammation of the mouth.
15 Vitri fel — is officinal at Lahore.
16 Vitri fel (I.) Diarrhoea, even with vomiting.
17 V itriolum album, v. Zincum sulphuricum.
18 V jtriolum m artis, v. Ferrum sulphuricum.
19 Warburgi tinctura antifebrile — was, some years back,
20 in repute among the English in Hindostan. According to the
21 Bengal Dispensatory, the principal drug in this nostrum is
22 Portlandia lieocandra (Coutarea speciosa, Aublet’s, Guiand)
23 French Guiana bark; but later analyses have discovered it to
24 be a compound of aloes, camphor, saffron, roots of angelica and
25 zedoaria, dissolved in proof-spirit; with the addition, to each
26 phial, of six grains of sulphate of quinine. I tried this essence
27 in full doses, in fevers, without any remarkable success; I, there-
28 fore, used it in small doses only, without dilution, moistening
29 pastiles with it, when I found that it removed itching and burning
30 sensation of the skin, also salivation.
31 W righti a antidysenterica, v. Nerium untidy sent ericum.
32 Xanthoxyi.um hostile. Xanthoxylum aromaticum — is a
33 tree in the Himalayas and in the mountains of Cashmere.
34 Branches, as thick as a finger, serve the natives as tooth-brushes;
35 thicker branches are used bv the faqueers as walking sticks, also
36 to triturate the hemp-plant, in preparing their beverage. In using
37 a triturator possessing pepper-like aromatic qualities, they spare