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Medical Definition of Savine

1. A coniferous shrub (Juniperus Sabina) of Western Asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-coloured foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc. The North American red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana) Origin: OE. Saveine, AS. Safinae, savine, L. Sabina herba. Cf. Sabine Alternative forms: sabine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Savine

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

1. A Universal Formulary: Containing the Methods of Preparing and Administering by Robert Eglesfeld Griffith, Robert Pennell Thomas (1866)
"Oil of savine, sufficient. Mix, and form pills of two grains each. ... Melt the cerate, and mix in the savine. US Ph. As a dressing to keep up the discharge ..."

2. Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: Being a Collection by Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Sextus Placitus, Dioscorides Pedanius (1864)
"savine.a LXXXVII. Juniperus 1. For the morbus regius,b which is named aurigo, ... savine is not a native of England ; it is drawn somewhat like in MS. ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1837)
"Believing that she was pregnant, he gave oil of savine, a deleterious drug, intending to bring on abortion, and an inflammation of the womb was produced, ..."

4. Materia Medica and Therapeutics, for Physicians and Students by John Barclay Biddle (1886)
"savine is the TOPS of Juniperus Sabina (Nat. ... savine is a local irritant. Taken internally, in medicinal doses, it stimulates the circulation and ..."

5. The Clinical Journal (1899)
"One of the most important of the Conifera is, I need hardly say, savine. ... savine is very important because it has, from time out of mind, been used for ..."

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