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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 . growing in the West Indies, the Caro-linas, Georgia, etc. The leaves are expectorant, and are applied toulcers. The bitter root is diuretic and purgative. The berries arenarcotic, [a, 35.]—S. maniacum. See Atropa belladonna andDatura stramonium.—S. manosum. Fr., morelle humide. AnEast Indian species. Its juice is used as a pectoral and the root asa sudoriflc. [a, 35.]—S, melongena. See under 8. escu
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 . growing in the West Indies, the Caro-linas, Georgia, etc. The leaves are expectorant, and are applied toulcers. The bitter root is diuretic and purgative. The berries arenarcotic, [a, 35.]—S. maniacum. See Atropa belladonna andDatura stramonium.—S. manosum. Fr., morelle humide. AnEast Indian species. Its juice is used as a pectoral and the root asa sudoriflc. [a, 35.]—S, melongena. See under 8. esculentum.—S. nigrum. Fr., morelle [Fr. Cod.] {commune, ou noire^, morette,mourette, cr^ve-chien, raisin de lovp, herbe aux magidens. Ger.,schivarzer Nachtschatten, Nachtkraut, Berstekraut, Saukraut. Sp.,yerba mora [Mex. Ph.]. Garden (or black-berried) nightshade,houndberry, petty morel; a low-growing annual. There are nu-merous varieties and closely related species. Those in southernEurope were known to Dioscorides as <rTpvxvov Kfiiralov. The herba-ceous parts, or leaves, herba solani {?eu solatrii) nigri, containsolanine, though authorities differ as to their poisonous character,. SOLANUM DULCAMARA. [A, 327.] A, ape; A^, at; A3, ah; AS all; Ch, chin; CliS, loch (Scottish);. E, he; E^, ell; G, go; I, die; 1=, in; N, in; N^, tank; 2809 SOHLESOLUTIO and also as to that of the berries. The leaves are , and mildly purgative, and in large doses are said to pro-duce nausea and giddiness. They have been used in chronic skindiseases and painful scrofulous, cancerous, and scorbutic India they are used also as a refrigerant, in diarrhoea, fevers,and hydrot)hobia, and as a sopthing application in eye diseases. InMexico their decoction is used in fomentations and vaginal injec-tions. In Reunion and the Mauritius the leaves are eaten, thepoisonous properties being removed in the cooking, [a, 35.]— Fr., morelle oUracee. A species the
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