Medicine

大楓子. Lucraban seeds (imported from Thailand). They are nearly an inch long, consisting of a hard woody outer shell, to whose surface the pulp or rind adheres. The oily albumen incloses heart-shaped leafy cotyledons. Cure for leprosy. The powdered oily nucleus of the seed is administered in doses of a drachm twice a day for four months and the expressed oil occasionally rubbed on the skin. From Singapore and Penang. Value at Ningbo, $9 per picul. Dark seeds. One of a collection of samples of Chinese medicine, each in an individual glass jar sealed with cork top.