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 . bean. See V. (2d def.).—V. cimarona. Small, bastard, orwild v.; the fruit of V. silvestris. [a, 35.]—V. claviculata. Fr.,liane d blessures. Ger., heulenfriichtige Vanille. Purple-lip or-chid, green withe of the West Indies ; a v,-yielding species (identi-fied by some with F. planifolia) growing in: the hot and damp re-gions of America and Africa ; used like F. aromatica. [a, 35.]— See Vani
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 . bean. See V. (2d def.).—V. cimarona. Small, bastard, orwild v.; the fruit of V. silvestris. [a, 35.]—V. claviculata. Fr.,liane d blessures. Ger., heulenfriichtige Vanille. Purple-lip or-chid, green withe of the West Indies ; a v,-yielding species (identi-fied by some with F. planifolia) growing in: the hot and damp re-gions of America and Africa ; used like F. aromatica. [a, 35.]— See Vanillism.—V. leg, V. ley. Fr., vanille lee. Thevainilla mansa of the Spaniards ; the larger and more valuable from F. sativa. [a, 35.]—V. palmarum. A Brazilian spe-cies affording an inferior v. (Rio v.) containing 1*03 per cent, of va-nillin, [a, 35.]—V. planifolia. , a chmbing species grow-ing in moist, shady forests ; indigenous to eastern Mexico and otherSarts of tropical America, but cultivated in Reunion, the Seychelles,ava, etc., for its fruit, which forms the bulk of the v. of is a fleshy pod about -^ or t£^ inch wide and 3 to 12 inches long,. vanilla planifolia. [a, 327, hooked at the base, and opening lengthwise by two unequal contains a viscid, aromatic juice m which are imbedded numer-ous black seeds. Its peculiar fragrance is due to vanillin, which iscontained in the juiceor pulp, and is diffusedthroughout, the entirefruit when it is surface of the podis finely furrowed andoften beset with crys-tals (see Vanille gi-vr4e). It has been usedas an excitant, stom-achic, stimulant, etc.,but is chiefly employedfor flavoring. V. is saidby Grasset to produceparalysis of the spinalcord and motor nervesin frogs, [a, 35J— A SouthAmerican species saidto yield vanillon. [a,35.] — V. , poudre de vanillesucree. A preparationmade by triturating 1part of V. (2d def.) with9 parts of sugar (10 of
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