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 . ]Owan, ajwan, ajwain,or bishops-weed ; a small annual herb cultivated in India, said tofurnish most of the thymol of commerce ; used largely in India as acondiment, carminative, antispasmodic, and stimulant, and in dys-pepsia and diarrhoea. The wild plant is thought to be Egyptian and (I^retan variety {Btychotis coptica [De Candolle],Ammi copticum [Linnseus], Daucus copticus [Persoon])
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 . ]Owan, ajwan, ajwain,or bishops-weed ; a small annual herb cultivated in India, said tofurnish most of the thymol of commerce ; used largely in India as acondiment, carminative, antispasmodic, and stimulant, and in dys-pepsia and diarrhoea. The wild plant is thought to be Egyptian and (I^retan variety {Btychotis coptica [De Candolle],Ammi copticum [Linnseus], Daucus copticus [Persoon]) was thea/xftt oiBioTnnov of Dioscorides, and its fruit was known as semen am-meos (seu ammei) veri (seu cretici, seu minoris) and semen origaniodorati. [B. 6,42,81,172,180.]—C. bulbocastanum [Koch]. Syn.:Bunium bulbocastanum [Linnseusljseu minu^ [Gouan]). A peren-nial species growing in southern Europe. The root-tubers {radixbulbocctstanU earth-chestnuts) are roasted and eaten. [B, 180.]—, C. carvi [Linnaeus]. Fr., carvi cultive^ cumin des , gemeiner KUm- mel, Karbe, : Apium [Crantz](seu Bunium [Bieber-stein], seu lAgusti-cum [Roth], seu Slum[Beruhardi]) Seseli c. [Scopoli] (seucarvi [Both]). Cara-way ; a biennial spe-ciesCTOwingthrough-out Europe, bearfngah aromatic fruit. [B,121, See Cara-way. — C. species the fruit ofwhich is used in Indialike that of C. ajo-wan. I A,479.]—C. pe-troselinum [Ben-tham and Hooker].¥r., Ger.,Pe-tersilie, gemeine Pe-tersilgCy Garien-Pe-tersllge. : Api-um petroselinum[Linnaeus], Petroseli-num sativum [Hoff-mann]. Parsley ; aspecies indigenous tosouthern Europe, but now cultivated everywhere. The root, herb,and fruit—raatVc (et herba et se-fien) peiroselini (seu petroselinihortensis, seu petroselini vulgaris, seu apii alpini, seu apii hor-tensis)— Been official. The root was formerly employed as adiuretic and laxative in dropsy and gonoiThcea, and was included THE CARU
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