re infected with them have long desired to naturalise it in their several countries. Gmelin mentions that in Siberia the natives also use it as an evacuant in dropsy, and that its effects are violently emetic and drastic.anciently a people near the Palus Maeotis. They invaded Asia Minor 1284 years before Christ, and seized upon the kingdom of Cyaxares. After they had been masters of the country for 28 years, they were driven back by Alyates king of Lydia. The name also of another nation on the western coast of Italy. The country which they inhabited was supposed to be gloomy, that to express a great obscurity, the expression of Cimmerian darkness has proverbially been used; and Homer, according to Plutarch, drew his images of hell and Pluto from the gloomy and dismal country where they dwelt.