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 . me referred to theJPassijtoraceoey by Link and others made the tjpe of a distinct order, the Pa^iayacece ; the Papaya, of De Candolle. [B, 75,121 ]—C. citriformis. A species with edible fruit. [B, 19. ]—C. C. spinosa.—C. papaya [Linnaeus]. Fr., papayer commun^figuier des lies (ou des negres). Ger., Melonenbaum. It., , papauo [Mex. Ph.]. Syn. : Papaya communis [Lamarck] (seuvu
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 . me referred to theJPassijtoraceoey by Link and others made the tjpe of a distinct order, the Pa^iayacece ; the Papaya, of De Candolle. [B, 75,121 ]—C. citriformis. A species with edible fruit. [B, 19. ]—C. C. spinosa.—C. papaya [Linnaeus]. Fr., papayer commun^figuier des lies (ou des negres). Ger., Melonenbaum. It., , papauo [Mex. Ph.]. Syn. : Papaya communis [Lamarck] (seuvulgaris [De Candolle], seu c. [Gartner]). The papaw-, or melon-tree, indigenous to South America, and cultivated throughout thetropics. It is a small tree, bearing large palmate leaves, and anorange-colored, succulent, oblong fruit, with thick rind, and contain-ing numerous black seeds. When ripe, the fruit is eaten, especiallyin the form of preserves or pickles. The leaves are used instead ofsoap. The juice of the unripe fruit contains an albuminoid sub-stance, papain or papayotin, which gives it a peptonizing similar property seems to reside in other parts of the plant, as. THE CARICA SPINOSA. [A, 327.] meat wrapped in the leaves or suspended from the branches, andalso the flesh of animals feeding upon the leaves and fruit, are ren-dered tender. The juice is also said to exert a solvent effect on thecirculating blood. Taken internally undiluted, it is acrid and maycause severe gastro-enteritis, acting as a powerful cathartic. To-gether with the seeds and the milky juice of the tree, it is employedas an anthelminthic. The juice of the fruit-pulp is used to removefreckles. [B, 19, 81, 172, 173, 180; J. M. Maisch, Am. Jour, ofPharm., Feb., 1886.]—C. pyrlformis. A species with edible fruit.[B, 19.]—C. spinosa. The chambura ; a species indigenous toBrazil and Guiana. The juice of the tree is very acrid, the fruit isinsipid, and the flowers emit a stercoraceous
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