Note on Embelia Ribes as a Remedy for Tape-Worm

Civil Surgeon of Allahabad. "Baubirung" is the vernacular name of the remedy above alluded to, and as it seems to me to surpass many others that I have tried in tape-worm?as, moreover, its virtues do not seem to be extensively known?it has been thought worth while to draw attention to it in this place. In proof of the drug being little known, it may be stated that Dr. Waring does not mention it in his recently-published pharmacopoBia of India. Dr. O'Shaughnessy, ia the Bengal Dispensatory, says that the berries of Embetia Ribes arc of a pungent, pepper-like taste, that they are used as au adulteration for black pepper, as well as by the native physicians as a vermifuge cathartic. Sir W. Ainslie does not allude to it in his Materia Indica, and Dr. Lindley (Vegetable Kingdom) merely notes that a slight degree of pungency exists iu the berries of Embelia Ribes and some others of the same family (Myrsinaceoe), while cathartic properties are ascribed to Erobusta.