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Show ROUND KZMPFERIA. Corprat Conrection. (Confectio Cardiaca.) Take of zedoary, grossly powdered, saffron, half a pound of,each: distilled water, three pints. twenty-four hours, then press and strain. for Macerate — Eva- ; and then add porate the straine®liquor to a pound and ahalf the following ingredients reduced to a fine powder: compound powder of crabs claws, sixteen ounces; cinnamon $ ——_——. nutmeg, two ouncesof each; — cloves, an ounce; lesser.cardamomseeds, husked, half an ounce; ——— doublerefined sugar, two pounds; Makea confection. The doseof this confection is from one scruple to one drachm, in any convenient vehicle, to raise and recruit the spirits ; and as an adjuvant it is more employed than any other ingredient in th whole Materia Medica, combined with moreactive ingredients. It enables persons to retain medicines, which otherwise would nauseate the stomach, gives a colour to colourless ingredients, and produces a physickytaste, so necessary whenexhibiting certain remedies, as camphorated mixture, &c. LONG-ROOTED TURMERIC. TURMERIC, L. P. CURCUMALONGA,L.P. Class 1. Monandria. Order I. Monogynia. Essent. Gen. Cuar. Stamina five; four barren, one fertile: Corolla fourparted: Nectary three-lobed: Filament flat. Spec. Coar. Leaves lanceolate: lateral Nerves very numerous. a DESCRIPTION. "Tue leaves are about a span long, and three or four inches broad, of a fine green colour, and pointed at the end. The flowers grow on stalks of eight, ten, or more inches high, and of the thickness of one’slittle finger ; they are collected in a kind of scaly cone, of an oblong figure, of a pale reddish colour. HISTORY. Turmeric is a perennial plant, a native of the East Indies. (The roots are tuberous, knotty, and long, wrinkled, externally jof a pale yellow colour, and internally of a shining saffron fbrown. They have a weak aromatic smell, andaslightly bitter apres taste. ae Ae ESS ‘They contain a very little essential oil; and |