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PAÑIS.—BREAD.

Ainsj-ie ; Brugnatelli ; Coxe ; Gui-bourt; Murray and Gmelin.

A plant of Chínese Tartary and of Canada.{Poîyandria Diœcia, Linn. ; Araliacea 3 ,Juss. ; Fig. Flore Medic. IV. 184)

The root [Radix Ginseng) is employed.It is fusiform, of the thickness of the finger,and two or three inches in length, reddishwithout and yellowish within. Its crown issurmounted by a twisted knotty tissue uponwhich the vestiges of stalks are apparent.Its substance is semi-transparent, compact,and horny. It is destitute of odour, buthas a saccharine, bitterish, and feebly aro-matic taste.

It contains much starch and gum.

The Asiatics regard it as a powerful aphro-disiac ; but it has no greater right to thistitle than the many other substances on

which it has been bestowed by what is calledpopular observation.

PASTILLES OF GINSENG. (BORIES ; CA-DET de Gassicourt; Pierquin)

R. Sugar, ten pounds.

Vanilla, ten ounces.

Ginseng, five ounces.

Tincture of Cantharides, five drams.

Oil of Cinnamon, one drop.

Essence of Ambergris, ten drops.Mucilage, a sufiicient quantity.

Make pastilles of from twenty-four tothirty grains. — Dose, four or five daily.These pastilles may occasion serious con-sequences ; at the same time they will befound of no service in reviving, even for amoment, faculties which have ceased torespond to impotent desires.

PANICUM MILIACEUM.-MILLET.

Synonimes :— Millet, Fr. ; Hirse, Dan. ;and Germ.; Hajo, Span.; Geerst, Dut.;Miglio,lTAL. ; Proso, Pol.; Milho.PoRT.

Hisp. ; Gall.; Murray and Gmblin.

This plant is cultivated in several countriesof Europe, but it is not known from what

part it is originally. {Triandria Digynia,Linn. ; Gramínea, Juss.; Fig. Zorn, ïc.pl.t. 349)

The seed I Semen Milii) is employed. Itis small and round ; under a thin, crusta-ceous, yellow, shining, bivalve pellicle, itcontains a white and farinous substance.

PANIS.—BREAD.

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BREAD DRINK.

Ptisana ex Pane. (Niemann)

R. Wheat Bread, eight ounces.

Water, thirty-two ounces.

Boil for an hour, then strain, and add tothe liquid a quantity of water equal to thatwhich has evaporated.

Drink prepared with the toasted crust ofrye bread is more agreeable and ratherastringent.

It is to be taken by glassfuls, in irrita-tions of the alimentary passages.

PANADO.

Panada Anglorum. (Augustin)

R. Toasted Rye Bread, six ounces.

Cinnamon, half a drain.

Fresh Lemon Peel, two drains.

White Wine, two pounds.

Boil, and strain. The yolk of an egg orsome aromatics may be added.

SYDENHAM'S WHITE DECOCTION.

Decoctum album seu alburn Sydenhami seuCornu Cervi compositum seu Cornu CerviElaphi compositum seu Cornu Cervi cumMica Panis. (Ant. ; Belg. ; Bruns. ;Hisp. ; Gall.; Form. Hop. Fr.; Sard. ;Sax.; Disp. Cha. Paris; Cadet deGassicourt ; Niemann ; Pieröuin ;Ratier ; Spielmann ; Van Mons)

R. Shavings of Hartshorn, two ounces.

Crumb of Bread, four ounces.

Spring Water, six pounds.

Boil down to one third, and strain with-out expression. (Sard.)

R. Hartshorn, "1 of each,

Crumb of Bread, J two drams.

Water, three pounds.

Boil down to two pounds, and add

White Sugar, any quantity.

Dissolve. (Niemann)