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 . [V. S. Ph.]). [B, 5, 42.]—C. album [Linnaeus].Fr., drageline, grasseline, herbe au vendangeron, senousse. Syn. :Atriplex silvestris [J. Bauhinl (sen alba [Crantz]), Blitum atriplexsilvestris dictum [Ray], C. folio laciniato, coma purpurascente[Tournefort], C. folio sinuaio candicante [Dill]. Wild orach, pig-weed, lambs-quarters ; a species growing throughout Europe, Asia,Africa, an
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 . [V. S. Ph.]). [B, 5, 42.]—C. album [Linnaeus].Fr., drageline, grasseline, herbe au vendangeron, senousse. Syn. :Atriplex silvestris [J. Bauhinl (sen alba [Crantz]), Blitum atriplexsilvestris dictum [Ray], C. folio laciniato, coma purpurascente[Tournefort], C. folio sinuaio candicante [Dill]. Wild orach, pig-weed, lambs-quarters ; a species growing throughout Europe, Asia,Africa, and America. The young leaves are often used as a and sedative properties have been ascribed to it, and it issaid to be employed for haemorrhoids. It contains chenopodin. [B,173. 180, 211, —C. altissimnm. 1. Of Linnasus, the Su(xda al-tissima. 2. Of Bieberstein, the Suceda maxima. [B, 180, 214.]— [Linnaeus]. Fr., ambroisie (ou the) du Mexique,ambroisine. Ger., wohlriechender Gdnsefuss, mexicanisches Trau- Ai ape;. A», at; A, ah; A, in; N, in; N^ tank; 961 CHfiNEAUCHENOPODIUM. THE CHENOPODIUM ALBUM. (A, 327.) benkraut^ Jesuitenthee. Sp., t4 de Espana [Sp. PhJ. Mexican tea,American wormseed, Jerusalem oak, the cvXen of Chiii; an annualherb growing throughout the United States, Mexico, and SouthAmerica, and naturalized in southern Europe and southern Africa. It has a peculiar aro-matic odor and a bitterbiting taste. The (theC. anthelminthicum[Linnaeus]) is peren-nial and has a moredisagreeable odor andmore pungent tastethan the ordinaryC ambrosioides. Thefruit of this variety isofficial in the U. S. C, and furnishes theoleum chenopodii. Theherb of C. ambrosioidesis official in severalEuropean pharmaco-pceias, and was former-ly used as a nervine,especially in chorea,under the name of Mex-ican tea, Je^uit^s tea,etc. It is said to beused by the Braziliansas an emmenagogueand abortifacient. Allparts of the plant, butespe
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