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 . eaves and fruits of which are em-ployed in aphthee and ophthalmia. The bark is used in fevers andgastralgia, and the seeds yield an oil used as a mild purgative.[B, 180 («, 24).]—D. melanoxylon. Ft., plaqueminier d boia , Schwarzholzbaum. The Coromandel ebony-tree. The barkis astringent and is applied to ulcerations, and, mixed with blackpepper, is used in dysentery. It is one of the specie
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 . eaves and fruits of which are em-ployed in aphthee and ophthalmia. The bark is used in fevers andgastralgia, and the seeds yield an oil used as a mild purgative.[B, 180 («, 24).]—D. melanoxylon. Ft., plaqueminier d boia , Schwarzholzbaum. The Coromandel ebony-tree. The barkis astringent and is applied to ulcerations, and, mixed with blackpepper, is used in dysentery. It is one of the species yielding thelignum ebenum, formerly ofiBcial. [B, 172, 173, 180 (a, 24).]— Fr,, plaqueminier noir. A species found in the Philip-pines. The fruit is eaten. [B, 173 (a, 34).]—D. obtusifolia. Sp.,zapoteprieto [Mex, Ph.]. A Mexican species ; the leaf is astringent,the bark antiperiodic, and the fruit comestible. [J. M. Maisch,Am. Jour, of Pharm., Apr., 1886, p. 168.]—D. pubescens. TheD, virginiana. [B. 215.]—D. sebata. Qyn.: Irvingia harmandiana[De Lanessan]. The cay cay of the Chinese ; a large tree of FartherIndia, Cambodia, and Annam. The bark is bitter and rich in tan-. DIOSPYROS VIRGINIANA, nin. A substance resembling cacao-butter is expressed from theseeds. I Nouv. rem,, June 24, 1888, p. 283 <a, 31).]—D. Mexican persimmon ; a species with edible fruit, growing in Texas and Mexico. [B, 216.]—D. tomentosa. A Bengal species;one of the sources of lignum ebenum. [B, 173, 180 (a, 24).]—D. vir-giniana. Fr., plaqueminier de Virginie (ou d^Amirique). Ger.,virginische Dattelpjtaume. Syn.: D. concolor [Monch], The per-simmon tree of the southern United States (the d. of the U. S. Ph.,1870). The bark is bitter, and has been used in intermittent unripe fruit is very astringent, containing tannin, pectin, glu-cose, and a yellow coloring matter ; the ripe fruit is palatable. [B,5,18, 173,180 (a. 34).]—Fructus diospyri. The unripe frui
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