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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 Excerpt: ... Rlieede, Mai. viii. p. 17. t. 9.) and the amara Indica of Humph. (Amb. v. p. 410. t. 151.), Browne, in his History of Jamaica, tells-us, that at Kingston in Jamaica, the boiled leaves, as well as a decoction of the plant itself; are equally used to promote the lochise. From the Hortus Bengalensls we learn that seven species of momordica are now growing in the Company's botanical garden at Calcutta, all natives of different parts of India. (See work, p. 70.) Of this, the mom. charantia, more will be said in another part of this work; it is the muop-dang of the Cochin-Chinese, who prize the fruit much as a pot-herb; the pagulkai of the Taraools, and the kariiuila of the Cingalese. CCXLII. PAILLIE (Tarn.) Buttle (Tel.) also Sarata VtT2" (Sans.) Chilpasah jJJbj. (Pers.) Chapkall j£ (Duk.) Chipkulee (Hind.) Gecko (Lizard). Lacehta Gecko (Shaw). The bruised body of this animal, made into electuary, in conjunction with certain aromatics, the Hindoo doctors think possesses virtues in leprous affections: this notion seems to us the more extraordinary, when we are informed that one of the causes assigned for the Cochin leg (elephas that morbid enlargement of the limb so common in Eastern countries, is the licking with the tongue of a species of lizard, which the native practitioners reckon as poisonous, and which is termed in Tamool paumboo-aranay; nay, I know, that a very unpleasant scurfy and slightly itchy eruption is certainly produced by the acrid water or juice which a lizard secretes, the best remedy for which is frequent washing with soap and water, and a subsequent application of a little castor-oil; maladies of this nature are fully treated of in a work in high Tamool, entitled Aghastier Ahirum. The gecko is apt to be confounded with a variety of...
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- ÉditeurRarebooksclub.com
- Date d'édition2012
- ISBN 10 1130526097
- ISBN 13 9781130526097
- ReliurePaperback
- Nombre de pages156
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