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 . S. glabrata, S. laurina. Fr.,spigelie glabre. Ger., kahle (oder gldnzende) Spigelie. A suffru-teacent species growing in Brazil. Its root, which tastes and smellslike Valeriana officinalis, is used as an excitant, diaphoretic, andanthelminthic. [a, 35.]—S. lonicera, S. marilandica. Fr.,spigilie de Maryland, ceillet de la Caroline. Ger., marylandischeSpigelie, indianischer PinJc^ Gegenblattspigelie,
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 . S. glabrata, S. laurina. Fr.,spigelie glabre. Ger., kahle (oder gldnzende) Spigelie. A suffru-teacent species growing in Brazil. Its root, which tastes and smellslike Valeriana officinalis, is used as an excitant, diaphoretic, andanthelminthic. [a, 35.]—S. lonicera, S. marilandica. Fr.,spigilie de Maryland, ceillet de la Caroline. Ger., marylandischeSpigelie, indianischer PinJc^ Gegenblattspigelie, marylandischesWurmkraut. Carolina (or Indian) pink, worm-grass ; a perennialherb growing in the southern and southwestern United States. Itsrhizome and the rootlets constitute the s., or pinkroot, of the U. In overdoses this is an acro-narcotic poison. It is said to bealterative and tonic, but is mainly used as an anthelminthic. Theherb and leaves are less active, [a, 35.] SPIGELIE (Fr.), n. Spe-zha-le. See Spiqelia.—S. anthel-minthique. See Herba spigelie. , n. Spi^je^l-en. Fr., spig/line. Ger., Spigelin,Spigeliebitter. A reddish-brown, bitter, acrid, nauseous suostance. SPIGELIA marilandica. [A, 327.] regarded as the active principle of the root of Spigelia anthelmia ;according to Dudley, a volatile alkaloid. It is neutral, uncrystal-lizable and very deliquescent, and acts as a purgative, pioducingalso vertigo and intoxication. [B, 38, 48, 93 (a, 14, 35).] SPIGNEL, n. Spi^gne^l. See Meum athamanticum. Sl*IKE,n. Spik. Lat., sptca. Fr., cpi(lstdef.). Ger., ^eftre(lstdef.). 1. A form of indeterminate anthotaxis in which the flowersare sessile, or nearly so, and are arranged on an elongated axis. the Equisetinece, the fruiting cone, consisting of compactly ar-ranged modified leaves (sporophylls) elevated centrally on a shortstalk, [a, 35.] 3. See Lavandula spica. 4. See Spikenard.—Com-pound s. A collection of spikes (spikelets) arranged in a racemosema
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