An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionaryBeing a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French and German languages . de Malte. A variety of C. melo. [B, 173 (a, 24).]—C. melo [Linnaeus]. Gr., aiKvoireTroiv, a-Uvog n-eVur [Hippocrates],o-LKvo? jitepo? [Dioscorides]. Fr., melon, cantaloup. Ger., Melone,Melonengurke. It., Tnellone, propone. Sp., melon. The melon ;a species with edible fruit indigenous to southern and westernAsia. Its seed (semen melonis) formed part of the quatuor seminafrigida majora, formerly offic
An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionaryBeing a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French and German languages . de Malte. A variety of C. melo. [B, 173 (a, 24).]—C. melo [Linnaeus]. Gr., aiKvoireTroiv, a-Uvog n-eVur [Hippocrates],o-LKvo? jitepo? [Dioscorides]. Fr., melon, cantaloup. Ger., Melone,Melonengurke. It., Tnellone, propone. Sp., melon. The melon ;a species with edible fruit indigenous to southern and westernAsia. Its seed (semen melonis) formed part of the quatuor seminafrigida majora, formerly official. [B, 19, 77, 173, 180 (a, 24).]— [MonchJ. See C. dudaim.—C. prophetarum,C. prophetorum [Linnaeus]. Fr., concombre des proph^tes (oudArabic). Ger., Prophetengurke. A species indigenous to Arabia,used as an article of diet. It contains a bitter principle calledby Nalz propetin. [B, 5, 173 (a, 24).]—C. pseudo-colocynthis[Royle]. Himalayan colocynth ; a species indigenous to northernIndia, much resembling colocynth and often mistaken for it. [B,18, 172 (a, 24).] See Citrullus pseudo-colocynthis.—C. sativus[Linnaeus]. Fr., concombre ordinaire (ou commun). Ger,, Gar-. CUCUMIS SATIVUS. [A, 327.] tengurke, Kurkumer. It., cetriuolo. Sp., pepino. The commoncucumber ; indigenous to Tartary, Egypt, and southern Asia. Theseeds formed one of the constituents of the official quatuor seminafrigida majora, and were emulsified and used in catarrh, intestinaldisorders, etc. An emollient ointment is still prepared from thepulp of the fruit. The fruit is also pickled and eaten. [B, 5,19,173, 180 (a, 24).] Cf. Pommade aux concombres.—C. Ecballium elatenum. [B, 180 (a, 24).]—C. trigonus [Rox-burgh]. An East Indian species having a very bitter taste and re-puted to be purgative. [B, 81 (a. 21).]—C. utilissimus [Roxburgh].The field-cucumber; cultivated in India. [B, 172, 180 (a, 24).]—Pomatum de succo cucumeris sativi [Fr. Cod.]. See Pom-made aux CON
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