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

Whitelaw Ainslie

Date:: 1813

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

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$” a ee ) be | Brus > )— i é j ’ ei a ; ) 4 , F my | ) 4 am Car. 1, Sec. |.] , °, | OF HINDOOSTAN. | bee ARAB a eaten a ¥- ‘ie y eat. A | Pr ye 2 » O¢adh$ 68 (DoK.)——_--- Asopiloo (Te,) ~~ ——— LAC MACCINUM.: »5 a > : | ’ ? 1) = Bist . ; The Vytlans recommend a Cow's Milk diet for such as havea morbid heat of skin, Ss 9 ; } - is redundancy of bile, and general weakness of constitution. ' > ) » MILK, GOAT'S. atoo paal oy, @escirrony (Ta™.) dood O38. hem (Duk.) ——-=— Alay ka paloo (Tzt,)———-—LAC CAPRA. ° Chayliehd- The Native Practitioners consider Goat’s'Milk as & very powerful restorative, and recommend it, with great confidence, iu Consumptive complaints, and obstinate Coughs, In the ‘‘Padaurtasindaumanie” (a ‘Lamool treatise on the qualities of food) we-are told, that Goat's Milk ought to be administered in such cases as are. aceompanied with a defi- ciency of bile, It is moreover stated, that it affords a very wholesome nourishment ‘to the body, in weakly habits, and is particularly useful when the bowels are inclined to he overloose, and the appetite delicate. MILK, ASS'S. Kaladay paal SCP SULT (Tam,) — Gudday ka dood 40 ocd (Dux) —Gadiday palo (Tx1,)- —~LAC ASIN. — Ass's. Milk is recommended by the Native Practitioners in maniacal cases ; they also suppose it to possess considerable virtue in Leprous affections; particularly in what the Vytians term Coostum, which corresponds with the Elephantiasis, or Bepra Arabum. Ju the Carin Kirandy (black Carapang of young children) they order a certain quantity ofittobe taken two or three umes in the course of the day, which, they say, is sufficient to cure the disorder, I cannot learn whether Mare’s Milk is ever used by the Kiindoos ; the Arabians consider it as narcotic and place it amongst their Mohédérrde. ra ; MINT. IViddatilam sy ¢ 9 ESOS mig (TaM:) -——— Poedina BAIS 92 (Pons. iw. and Dux.) ——-—— Né2d (Anaz.) ———— MENTHA CRISPA, Lin. An infusion of this the Tamool Doctors recommend in cases of Dyspepsia, and cer- tain irregularities of the bowels consequent of that.complaint, | | 2 MUSK. Castooriege 5 oserea? (Tam. Ter. Hino. ann Maray.) —~—— tj ang Meshk (DuK.)— Adiskk (Araa.)————Afooshé (Pars:) MOSCHUS MOSCHIFERUS, | SC saitheemete) The Native Practitioners are in the habit of prescribing Musk in general spas- _ modic’ affections, and in lock-jaw, ‘The Wytians, particularly, suppose it to be useful when given in what they call the A/duda Jennie, which corresponds _ with our Convulsions of Children ; a disease which they conceive to be produced ene | : hv | \)$

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