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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 . chronic rheumatism and gout and as a febrifuge.It contains tannin, resin, gum, an acrid substance, extractive, and an essential oil containing hydrocyanic acid. A water, aquapruni padi, is distilled from it, closely resembling in its proper-ties aqua amygdalae amaras. The leaves, flowers, and berriesare considered anthelminthic, though rarely used. [B, 173, 180(a, 35).]—P. semperflorens. A variety of P. acida. fa, 35.]—P. serotina. Fr., prunier tardif (1st def.), cerisier de la Tons-saint (1st def.). 1. Of Ehrhart, the black (or wild) cherry-treeof North America. The bark (wild-cherry bark, the p. virginianaof the U, S. Ph.) has an astringent, aromatic, bitter taste, andwhen macerated in water emits the odor of bitter almonds. It istonic and sedative, and is much used in the United States as apectoral. The leaves yield a volatile oil and hydrocyanic acid, and a water may be distilled from them similar in properties to aquaI : r-n -on i.«- . ., - , g^ g^^ p semperflorens.—P. 35^J. PRUNUS SPINOSA. [A, 327.] lauro-cerasi. [B, 180, 275 (asilvestiis, P. spiiio- sa. Ft., prunier dpi-neux (ou sauvage), ca-veron^ ciavichon, cre-quier, ipine noire, four-dinier, ni^re du bois, prunellier, Ger., Schleh-enpflaume^ Schlehen-strauch, Schlehdorn, Schwarzdom, Heck-dorn. Blackthorn, buck-thorn, sloe, wild plum ; ashrub growing through-out Europe. The flow-ers, fiores acacioe (seuacacice germanicce, seuacacice nostratis, seupruni spinosce, seu pru-ni [et pni, neoli] silves-tris), contain an essen-tial oil (associated withhydrocyanic acid), a bit-ter extractive, and tan-nin, and are sedativeand mildly laxative.[B, 173, 180 (a, 35).]—P.varia. See under P.avium. — P. virgini-ana. Fr., prunier de Virginie (2d def.). 1. Of Miller, the P. serotina (1st def.). 3, OfLinnasus and others, the