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ions. It has a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters.

nly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.

alumba, the Frasera Carolinensis, also called American gentian. Its root has been used in medicine as bitter tonic in place of calumba.

Laurus camphara of Linnæus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative.

er beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.

A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.

smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.

A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. Dunglison.

ger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine.

A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.

f which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.

ound in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.

A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. Dunglison.

ts growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc. Ure. Dunglison.

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

nus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.

Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.

ceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.

Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.