Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan's and agriculturist's nomenclature / [Sir Whitelaw Ainslie].

  • Whitelaw Ainslie
Date:
1813
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Credit: Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan's and agriculturist's nomenclature / [Sir Whitelaw Ainslie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tie i : uy ar ne, Car. 1. Sec,2.)° ° | ,oQRFUNDGOSTAN, ~ > pet 2 an ° ' 2 2 > LABDANUM, adun a) 5) i >. 2 z aaa! dg” Ps This resinous substance, which was considered by some of our old’ writers hs ceplia= . lic, pectoral and nervine, is now only used by us in the preparation of certain Plaiters, — Though rarely met with, itis yot unknown-to the Mahometan medical Practitioneys of — lower India; and, I perceive, bas a place in the Materia Medica of the Arabians, amongst their Afunzijat (Supparantia,) > : ) (OY. Apsn,)—=2—. CISTUS CRETICUS. Law, . Oatiat: 5 Be > a -LAC. Kombirruk egy rrp Lovse ae (Tame) Lakh (Hinp,) Laak wy (Dux,)———_=— Laksha (SANS.)—ommee Commoolékica (Ter.)———LACCA, ‘This substance, which -is improperly called agum, is found in great abundance on the Cron lacciferum (growing near Columbo), on the island of Ceylon ; it is also an . article of commerce from Siam and Pegu. (i.) The Abbé Rochon informs us that Gum - Lacis brought from Quan-au-ten in the.province of Quei-chu in China, but of a quality greatly interior to that.of Bengal. The -Vytians prescribe Komb-trruk (2.) in old and _ obstinate bowel complaints, when the habit has been much reduced ; they also (when Mixed with Gingilie oil) use it as an external application for the head, in cases in which the patient is debilitated from long continued fever, Lac may, be procured in many parts of lower Hindoostan. Inthe Mysore country it is generally found on th¢ tree there called Jala (Shorea Jala. Buch. M.S: $.) en Lie LEECH. Utter jL_ For (TAM.) Jon & | SG gm (Dux.) lagah (Ter:) (ARAB.) —————— JS /aucd (Sans.) > Patchét (Mavay,) —--——— Zeloo {Pens.) Kihégruheen —HIRUDU. _ The Native Practitioners use Leeches for-the same purposes that we do. LEMON..Zlimitchum pullum GW LOrrLOU LALO (Tam.) ——--———-VeemSe0 Jercoc (MALAY.) ———Jame _gAad (Hinp, anpb Dux.) ———Lémon (ARaB.) bird (SANs, ———Némmapundoo (Tev,)———CITRUS AURANTIUM, Vaz. Sherbet prepared with Lemons or Limes is much used by -the Natives of all descrips tions, as agrateful and cooling drink, 9 LIME, Ne ae i pe ert eae (1) The Stick-lac from Pegu is, perhaps, the finest in the world ; preferable even to thut of Bengal. See Oriental Repertory, Vol, 2d, page 580. reeeey (2) Me. WW, Francklin, in his“ Tracts, Political, Geographical and Commercial, on the dominions of Ava” (page 71), tells us, that Charong is the name given in the so tiymak country,.to a-kind of black lac, which és extrecled from atarge tree; one or (wa _ plents of which were brought to Calcutta by Captain Cor. Headds that the lac wus én general use amongst the Natives for their lacquered ware.
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