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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2CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS

3TO DR. AINSLIE’S MATERIA INDICA.

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630. Bdellium. “ All of this gura-resin

7found in India, is brought from

8Arabia and Persia” — I believe

9with Dr. Royle, that it comes

10only from the hills.

1139. Bitumen Petrolium — Petroleum

12is different from Bitumen. Kuf-

13fer aliehood is the Arab name of

14the former; Neft of the latter.

15130. Fenugreek — German name is not

16Kuhhomk, but Bockshorn.

17140. Galangal, lesser. Kust tulk —

18Kust tulk is Costus niger, or

19C. Amarus Cashmereanus. Pan

20ke jur, is right; Khoolinjan,

21also. See Galangal, greater.

22345. Rose'ioater — “Most of that used

23in India comes from Persia.”

24I never heard this statement

25before, and believe that none

26VO

2734. Hab nil — not the seeds from Indi-

28gofera Anil, but from Pharbitis

29cccrulea. Wall.

3038. Babreng , or Baiberung — berries

31of Embelia Ribes (446.)

3240. Bish — Aconitum ferox.

3373 Cheris, or Churrus — ltcsina Can-

34nabis. (446.)

35112. Paringhee , Bharangce — Clero-

36dendron infortunatum.

37216. Mysachie— Mystachie. Mastix.

38251. Mit ha bish(ze\ier, poison) — Aconi-

39tum ferox.

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42comes from Persia, but that all

43is made in India.

44364. Ceratonia Siliqua (not Kh. nubti)

45khirnoob.

46385. Buckum (Pers.) Bokkum wood

47is Coesalpinia Sapp an, not Saun-

48der’s red (Santalum rubrum).

49447. Tobacco (not Bujjer b’hang, seeds

50of cannabis) Tomaku.

51490. Zedoary. Turmeric -colored. Jun-

52glie huldie. Bun huldie. Jud-

53war. Bar. Nirbisi. All these

54names, I believe, are wrong ; at

55least, they are mistaken in the

56upper provinces.

57573. Zinc (rue, jest, dusta) is not Sung-

58busrie ; this being a compound

59of argilla, magnesia, silica, and

60oxyde of iron.

61II.

62271. Kad — Catechu.

63284 & 365. Mirabilis Jalapa article is

64a repetition.

65314. Verbena officinalis “is not a na-

66tive of India, it grows at Corfu,”

67also at Lahore, and in Cashmere.

68335. 336. Butea frondosa gum mi, is

69Bengal kino, called d’hak he

70gond, or kamcrkas. “The na-

71tives,” says Ainslie, “ appear to

72make no use of either the gum

73or flower; probably, in the

74lower provinces, it may be so,

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