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 . Ph., , Austr. Ph., Hung. Ph.]. Fr., chanvre de Vlnde [Fr. Cod.],chanvre indien. Ger., indischer Hanf. It., canapa indica. [Sp. Ph.], marihuana [Mex. Ph.]. Of Lamarck, the EastIndian variety of C. sativa; of the pharmacopoeias, the tops andleaves of the stalks of the female plant. [B. 95, ISO.] See C. sativa.—C. lutea. The Datisca cannabina. [B, 121.]—C. sativa [Lin- O. no; 02, not;
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 . Ph., , Austr. Ph., Hung. Ph.]. Fr., chanvre de Vlnde [Fr. Cod.],chanvre indien. Ger., indischer Hanf. It., canapa indica. [Sp. Ph.], marihuana [Mex. Ph.]. Of Lamarck, the EastIndian variety of C. sativa; of the pharmacopoeias, the tops andleaves of the stalks of the female plant. [B. 95, ISO.] See C. sativa.—C. lutea. The Datisca cannabina. [B, 121.]—C. sativa [Lin- O. no; 02, not; 0«, whole; Th, thin; Th^, the; U, like oo in too; U^, blue; U^, lull; U*, full; U, urn: U^, like a (German).lOS CANNABIUMCANOE-WOOD 802 nsBUs]. Fr., cJ\anvre. Ger., gemeiner Hanf. It., canapa.^ Sp.,cdiiayno. The common hemp, mdigenous to Asia and cultivatedthroughout Europe and America, where it has become naturalizedso as to grow spontaneously ; an erect branching herb from 4 to 10feet high, with a rough, angular stem, small green or whitish flow-ers, and petiolate leaves divided into from 5 to 9 lanceolate or linear,acuminate, serrate leaflets. The American variety, C. sativa, THE CANNABIS SATIVA. [A, 327.] americana (C. americana), is less branching, has finer bast fibres,and contains less of the peculiar resinous principle than the Indiansort. The fruiting tops of the latter, agglutinated with resin, con-stitute the gunjah^ or guaza, of the Hindoos, while the leaves orsmall stalks are^the bhang^siddij or hasheesh. The impure resin,obtained by scraping the tops of the plant or the clothes of menwho haverun through hemp fields, is known as charas or chu^ herb of the Indian plant has a peculiar heavy odor and a bitt«r,acrid taste, and contains a volatile oil composed, according to Per-sonne, of cannabene, cannabene hydride, several alkaloids (canna-binine, tetano-cannabinine, etc.), cannabinone, and cannabin, thelatter being the chief active ingredient. Th
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