Transactions of the Royal Medico-Botanical Society of London / edited by W. H. Judd.

Date:
1839
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    tppical dressing' for uleers. The yarl-yari or spar-wood of the family Anonacece, is stimulant and sudorific, possessing scarcely any astringent properties ; it is used in the form of decoction, in the treatment of syphilis and rheumatism. The Arisaor, a nondescript of the family Leguminosa;, is considered a tonic and febrifuge; it is exceedingly bitter and astringent. The Car- macata is a bitter and astringent bark, similar to the Quassia amara. The Waihyma, of the family Laurinece, is the casca ])7-eciosa of the Portuguese, and is by them regarded as a valuable sudorific and aromatic febrifuge. December ^th. A paper on the Aconitum Ferox, by M< Richard, was read. This plant grows in elevated situations in the Himmalayan chain; it has been also found in the provinces of Sirmore, Kamaon, and Nepaul. It furnishes the juice with which the Nagas, a tribe residing near the Silhet, poison their arrows ; and is, in all probability, the most subtile vegetable poison of continental India, being equally fatal whether in- troduced into the stomach or applied to wounds, which is not the case even with the Worary poison. A series of experiments were performed on dogs and rabbits, by M. Richard, with the alcoholic and aqueous extracts of the root, and when the poison was introduced into the system through a wound, the symptoms produced were difficulty of breathing, weakness, palsy, com- mencing generally in the hinder extremities, vertigo, convulsions, dilation of the pupil, and death, probably by asphyxia. The natives employ the Aconitum Ferox as a remedy in the treatment of rheumatism. The paper contains much interesting detail. January \2t1i, 1836. An essay on the character of the Cinchonas, by Dr. Sigmond, was read. January 26<7t. Dr. Ryan, the Professor of Materia Medica, delivered a lecture on the therapeutic properties of Cinchona and of its alcaloids, Quina and Cinchonia. February Qth. Mr. Everitt, the Professor of Chemistry, made some remarks on the Palm nuts, with reference to a new c