Volume 1
Materia Indica : or, some account of those articles which are employed by the Hindoos, and other Eastern nations, in their medicine, arts, and agriculture ... / by Whitelaw Ainslie.
- Date:
- 1826
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Materia Indica : or, some account of those articles which are employed by the Hindoos, and other Eastern nations, in their medicine, arts, and agriculture ... / by Whitelaw Ainslie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![and in preparing the amadou, used in some parts of the continent for tinder. Another species, Boletus pint laricis, or male agaric, has been given in sub- stance, and is obtained of the best quality from Mus- covy and Tartary. So little is yet known of the fructification of the fungi, that the characters have been hitherto taken from the external form; seven species of agaricus are indigenous in Jamaica ; and Browne, in his Natural History of that island, informs us, that the agaricus striatus, or large white agaric, is the most effectual application hitherto known to restrain the effusion of blood in recent or old wounds, applied in small pieces to the extremity of the vessels. See Hortus Jamaicensis, (vol. ii. p. 528.) The Arabians place garikoon amongst their Muf- fettehat, (Deobstruentia.) The Boletus Igniarius, when prepared, is without smell, but has an astringent taste chemically exam- ined, it was found to contain, according to Bouillon la Grange, resin, extractive matter similar in its na- ture to animal gelatin, and different salts. Mr. Eaton has called the attention of the scientific world to this fungus, by its peculiar flesh-like property while grow- ing ; if cut, the wound heals up by a sort of first intention, leaving not even a cicatrice nor any evi- dence of the incision. (Solliman’s Jour. vi. 177-) V. ALMOND, PERSIAN. Parsie Vadomcottay I \rr rri^gK)]— (Tam.) Waloo Booway (Cyng.) Inghoordi (Sans.) Parsee Vadom- vittooloo (Tel.) Amendoas (Port.) Badamie Parsie](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21934046_0001_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
