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 . sely resembles C. spinosa and has similarproperties. [B, 173, 180.]—C. pulclierrima [Jacquin]. A WestIndian species ; the fruit and seeds are regarded as poisonous. [B,121,180.]—C. rupestris [Sibthorp and Smith]. A thornless varietyof C. spinosa. [B, 180,214.]—C. sativa [Persoon]. The C. spinosa,[B, 173.] —C. sillquosa [Linnaeus]. A West Indian species, by someidentified with C. amygdalina, by other
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 . sely resembles C. spinosa and has similarproperties. [B, 173, 180.]—C. pulclierrima [Jacquin]. A WestIndian species ; the fruit and seeds are regarded as poisonous. [B,121,180.]—C. rupestris [Sibthorp and Smith]. A thornless varietyof C. spinosa. [B, 180,214.]—C. sativa [Persoon]. The C. spinosa,[B, 173.] —C. sillquosa [Linnaeus]. A West Indian species, by someidentified with C. amygdalina, by others regarded as a vaiiety ofC. breynia. It has properties similar to those of the latter. [B, 173.]—C. slnalca [Duhamel du Monceau]. A species growing aboutMt. Sinai, where the fiower-buds. which are very large, are madeinto preserves. ^[B, 173.]—C. sodada p. Brown]. Syn.: Sodadadecidua [Forskal]. A small shrub of Arabia and Egypt; thepungent berries are employed as a remedy foi- sterility, and,when unripe, are cooked and eaten as a condiment. [B, 121, 173,180.]—C. spinosa [Linnaeus]. Fr., cdprier, taperier des Proven-Qaux. Ger., gemeiner Kappemstrauch. The caper-bush ; a thorny. THE CAPPARIS SPINOSA, shrub growing wild on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, alsofrequently cultivated there. The flower-buds preserved in vinegarconstitute capers (gemmce conditm capparidis), which are now usedonly as a condiment, but were formerly regarded as a stimulantand antiscorbutic. The root-bark (cortex radicis camiaridis, cortexcapparidis, radix capparidis; Sp., alcdparos [Sp. Ph.], corteza dela raiz [Sp. Ph.]) has a bitter, biting taste, and was formerly usedas a diuretic and cathartic in intestinal torpor and constipation, andas a depurative application to ulcers. An infusion or tincture of theyoung branches may be used as a test for alkalies and acids, beingreddened by the latter and rendered green by the former. Theflowers are ofiScial in the Sp. Ph. as alcaparro. [B, 121
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