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lant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India.

ormerly Scilla, maritima), of acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties used in medicine. Called also sea onion.

A chalybeate medicine. Dunglison.

A stegnotic medicine; an astringent.

A sternutatory substance or medicine.

A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.

A medicine for diseases of the mouth. Dunglison.

nce of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.

ed as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.

A medicine or mixture; a potion. Shak.

A styptic medicine.

To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever.

; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. Shak.

A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic.

To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.

rs of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese Rhus vernicifera, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer.

The musky root of an Asiatic umbelliferous plant, Ferula Sumbul. It is used in medicine as a stimulant. [Written also sumbal.] -- Sum*bul"ic, a.

A suppurative medicine.

ries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.

A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort. African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia.