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COMFREY.

Add to the melted mixture,

Powdered Ginger, one ounce and a half.

------------- Bay Berries, j

■------------- Sulphur, ! of each,

■------------- Anise, | one ounce.

------------- Pennyroyal, J

Powdered Olibanum,

------------- Saffron,

------------- Mastic,

------------- Pimenta,

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of each,one ounce.

two ounces.

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SWIETENIA.

Two species of this genus are mentionedin pharmacopoeias :

1. Swietenia Mahagoni, Linn. — Mahogany.

Synonimes :— Acajou à meubles, Mahogond'Amérique, Fr.

Dan. ; Brugnatelli ; Guibourt ; Mur-ray and Gmelin.

A large tree of South America. (Decan-dria Monogynia, Linn.; Meliacece, JuSS. ;Fig. Cat. Carol. II. tab. 2Ü)

The bark of the trunk and of the branches(Cortex Ligni Mahagoni) is employed. Itis in nearly flat pieces, of about a foot inlength, rough, and of a brown-grey colour :that of the branches is quilled, of tiie lengthof the hand or less, of a pale whitish-greywithout, and of a deep brown-red within ;it is inodorous, but of a very astringent andbitterish taste.

2. Swietenia febrífuga, Roxi!.

Synonimes :— Mahogon fébrifuge, Fr, ;Rohun, Beng. ; Swamy, Can. ; Patranga,Sans. ; Schemmarum, Tam. ; Sormido,Tel.

Dubl. ; Dan.; Coxe ; Guibourt.

A tree of the Coromandel Coast. {Fig.Roxb. PL Coram. I. tab. 17)

The hark (Cortex Soymidce) is employed.It is in pieces of different sizes, generallyone or two feet long, from one to eightinches broad, and of a moderate thickness.It is covered with a thin, rough, ash-grey,and a little spotted, epidermis, and is itselfof an iron-red colour, brittle, compact, andsusceptible of a polish. It has an agreeableand feebly aromatic odour, and a very bit-ter, astringent, and rather balsamic taste.

It is febrifuge. — Dose, of the powder, onescruple.

SYMPHYTUM— COMFREY.

Two species of this genus of plants areused in medicine :

1. Symphytum Officinale, Linn. — GreatComfrey.

Synonimes , — Grande Consonde, Fr. ;Schwarzwurz, Beinwell, Wallwurz bein-well, Schnieerwurz, Germ. ; Kostiwal,Swalnjk, Wysaky trank, Bohem. ; Kulsukkerod, Dan. ; Consuelda major,Span.; Smeerwortel, Dut.; Consolidamaggiore, Ital. ; Zywokost, Pol.. ; Con-solda mayor, Port. ; Valleert, S wed.

Amst. ; Ant. ; Austr. ; Batav. ; Belg. ;Bruns. ; Hisp. ; Gall.; Ferr ; Form.Hop. Fr. ; Fuld. ; Genev. ; Lipp. ;Palat. ; Ross. ; Sax. ; Wirtem. ; Her-bip. ; Bergius ; Brugnatelli; Gui-bourt ; Murray and Gmelin ; Pide-P.IT; Spielmann; Zarda.

A common plant of Europe. (Pentan-

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dria Monogynia, LrxN.; Borraginea, Jus». ;Fig. Flore Medic. III. 130)

The root (Radix consolida majoris seuSymphyti) is employed. It is thick, notvery branching, fibrous, long, of a blackish-brown without, and white within. It isinodorous, and has a viscous taste. It con-tains much mucilage, with gallic acid.

2. Symphytum tuberosum, Linn.Hisp.

A plant of the south of Europe. (Fig.Jacq. Austr. t. 225)

The root is employed ; it is bulged, andtuberculous at distances.

These two plants are slightly astringent.They are used, especially the first, in h»-moptysis and diarrhoea.

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