Notes on the Medicinal Properties of the "Thistle-Oil," or Oil Extracted from the Seed of the "Argemone Mexicana"
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1st July last, page 197), has given a faint idea of the medicinal properties of the oil of ?' Argemone Mexicana"?Linn. Ccalled in Bengal Slie-al Kanta, and in Upper India Karivah). He was not aware that a number of experiments have been made in Oudh, which prove it to be a much more useful oil than for the mere purposes of burning. Some time ago I read in Simmond's '' Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom," page 626, that "in Neevis, (one of the Caribean Islands,) the oil of Argemone Mexicana, called thistle-oil, is sold in one ounce phials at a quarter of a dollar
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