HYOSCYAMUS
\hˈa͡ɪəsɪˌaməs], \hˈaɪəsɪˌaməs], \h_ˈaɪ_ə_s_ɪ__ˌa_m_ə_s]\
Definitions of HYOSCYAMUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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The leaves, Hyoscy'ami Fo'lia (Ph. U.S.), and seeds, Hyoscy'ami Semen (Ph. U.S.), are the parts used in medicine. Their odour is narcotic and peculiar; taste insipid and mucilaginous. The virtues are yielded to proof spirit. Hyoscyamus is narcotic, anodyne, antispasmodic, and slightly stimulant. It is used as a substitute for opium, where the latter disagrees; and is applied, externally, as a cataplasm in cancer and glandular swellings. Dose, gr. iij to X of the powder. An alkaloid was obtained from it by Brandos, Hyoscyamine, Jusquiamine.
By Robley Dunglison
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