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Definition of Piscidia

1. Noun. Genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Piscidia

Literary usage of Piscidia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of practical therapeutics: With Especial Reference to the by Hobart Amory Hare (1894)
"Piscidia ERYTHRINA. Piscidia Erythrina is a drug which ... The indications which have been met best by piscidia are ..."

2. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"Piscidia. Piscidia erythrina. Jamaica Dog-wood. NO Leguminosae. Tincture of root bark obtained when the plant is in flower, before leaf. Clinical.—Fever. ..."

3. Quarterly Compendium of Medical Science by D. G. Brinton (1884)
"Piscidia Erythrina as a Substitute for Morphine. The NT Med. ... has found in a few experimental cases that Piscidia erythrina possesses valuable sedative ..."

4. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1878)
"Piscidia. Common name, Jamaica dogwood. Preparation, Tincture from the bark of the root, obtained while the tree is in flower, before leaf. Authority. ..."

5. A Text-book of pharmacology and some allied sciences: (therapeutics, Materia by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1906)
"... as far as possible, in the dark, and the employment of heat should also be minimized. Piscidia. The bark of Piscidia Erythrina (Jamaica Dogwood. ..."

6. Microscopical Diagnosis by Charles Henry Stowell, Louisa Reed Stowell (1882)
"JAMAICA DOGWOOD-Piscidia ERYTHRINA. F^OR a long time all that was known regarding this plant, was the fact that the natives employed the bark of the root ..."

7. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1812)
"... boldness, and grace in the execution, talents natural to the genius of the Sicilian nation. IX. On the medical Effects of the Bark of the Piscidia ..."

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