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 . Miller]. Fr.,liane d vers, cierge queue de souris. Ger., Schlangenfackeldlstel,gelselformige Schlangenfackeldlstel, Peitschenkaktus. Sp., juncol^Mex. Ph.], junquillo, cuerno, floricuerno, fior del Idtigo, yerba dela alfereeia [Mex. Ph.]. Syn.: Cactus flagelliformis [Linnaeus],creeping c, snake cactus. A creeping, slender, very branching spe-cies, with red flowers, indigenous to the West Indies and S
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 . Miller]. Fr.,liane d vers, cierge queue de souris. Ger., Schlangenfackeldlstel,gelselformige Schlangenfackeldlstel, Peitschenkaktus. Sp., juncol^Mex. Ph.], junquillo, cuerno, floricuerno, fior del Idtigo, yerba dela alfereeia [Mex. Ph.]. Syn.: Cactus flagelliformis [Linnaeus],creeping c, snake cactus. A creeping, slender, very branching spe-cies, with red flowers, indigenous to the West Indies and SouthAmerica, and frequently cultivated. The juice is employed as ananthelminthic and externally as a rubefacient, and an infusion ofthe flow^ers as a prophylactic against convulsions. [B, 173,180,214,224.]—C. giganteus [EngelmannJ. A species, the saguaro of theMexicans, growing in the deserts of New Mexico, having erect flutedstems from 50 to 60 feet high, and bearing light cream-colored flow-ers and greenish fruit with red juicy pulp. The fruit is eaten by theIndians, who also use the thick saccharine juice. [B, 19,185, 2^.] —C. gracilis scandens ramosiis, etc. [Trew.], C. grandiflorus. THE CEREUS GRANDIFLORUS. [A, 327. [Miller]. Fr., jieur du Pdrou. Ger., Konigin der Nacht^ grossblu-mige Schlanqenfackeldistel. Syn.: Cactus grandiflorus [Linnasus].Night-bloommg c.; a species indigenous to the West Indies and culti-vated in North America and Europe, having a slender, trailing orclimbing, curiously twining stem, and bearing very large white orstraw-colored, fragrant flowers which bloom only during the night. O, no; O, not; Os, whole; Th, thin; Th^, the; U, like oo in too; U», blue; U^, lull; U*, fuU; U^, urn; U», like ii (German). CfiRBUXCERIUM 926 The acidulous orange-colored fruit is edible, and the acrid juice ofthe stem is used externally as a vesicant and counter-irritant inrheumatism, and internally as a remedy for dropsy and worms. [B,180.]—C. grandispinus [Hawor
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