Antilles and South America, and byGuaiacum sanctum L.
Guaiacum produces heavy close-grained wood, the cells of the heartwood filled with dark-colored resin.
Guaiacum resin is a stimulating diaphoretic sometimes used in the treatment of gout and rheumatism.
Guaiacum is confined to the New World, and is distributed from southern Florida through the Antilles, Mexico, and Central America to the Andes of Peru.
Its alcoholic solution, dropped on a piece of absorbent white paper, and exposed to the action of nitrous gas, does not acquire a green or blue colour; if it does, guaiacum resin is present.
The jalap resin of commerce is generally adulterated with scammony, gum, guaiacum or resin.
When the ulcers proceed through the French pockes, a thinne diet must be used, with the decoction of guaiacum or use universall unctions ex Hydrargyro[850].
The same is the ease on the 31st and 32nd leaves, which treat of "filthie and putrefied ulcers," guaiacum being again prescribed.
Thus at folio 25, "the malignant ulcer called cacoethes" is described without anything said of a venereal origin, but the specific guaiacum is given among the remedies.
Guaiacum resin, the guaiaci resina of pharmacopoeias, is obtained from the wood as an exudation from natural fissures or from incisions; by heating billets about 3 ft.
The tincture of guaiacum is universally used as a test for the presence of blood, or rather of haemoglobin, the red colouring matter of the blood, in urine or other secretions.
Both in this disease and in other forms of chronic arthritis guaiacum may be given in combination with iodides, which it often enables the patient to tolerate.
Guaiacum resin differs pharmacologically from other resins in being less irritant, so that it is absorbed from the bowel and exerts remote stimulant actions, notably upon the skin and kidneys.
Guaiacum is not now used in the treatment of syphilis.
The earlier opinions as to the efficacy of guaiacum came to be much modified in the course of time, and Dr Pearson (Observations on the Effects of Various Articles of the Mat.
Guaiacum resin is given medicinally in doses of 5-15 grains.
Thus Guaiacumand Salines are employed in Rheumatism, and Purgatives in Gout.
Some few of them are Diaphoretic, as Guaiacum and Mezereon.
Among innumerable vegetable remedies recommended by Strobelberger against odontalgia, we will only cite two American plants, the guaiacum and the tobacco-plant (Nicotiana tabacum).
A receipt for a grease-ball, in a modern veterinary work, gives, with liver of antimony, cream of tartar and guaiacum as ingredients.
This test depends upon the fact that a solution of haemoglobin develops a beautiful blue colour, if brought into contact with fresh tincture of guaiacum and peroxide of hydrogen.
This reaction (with tincture of guaiacumand copper) has been long known.
A teaspoonful of tincture of Guaiacum may be given before each poulticing, which may be done twice a day for an hour.
Or the tabloids of Guaiacum and sulphur, now found in our drug shops, may be taken, one tabloid representing the half-teaspoonful of tincture.
Oils which, especially when heated, directly incite the oil of turpentine to form ozone, and to color guaiacum violet or blue.
By now pouring upon an equal quantity of guaiacum in another test-tube 25 drops of spike oil and 5 drops of rectified oil of t from the flame shows a dark violet color.
Hager's guaiacum reaction[3] serves for the detection of oil of turpentine in a volatile oil.
To such oils, if to be tested for oil of turpentine, with the assistance of the guaiacum reaction, a few drops of an oil of the second class have to be added.
The guaiacum reaction is an ozone reaction and with reference to this, the volatile oils may be divided into three classes:-- a.
It is the methyl ether of pyrocatechin, and is obtained by distilling guaiacum from wood-tar creosote, and in other ways.
Defn: A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured.
The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum offinale or lignum- vitæ, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America.
While this Oil of Guaiacum is burning, a porous spongy body rises from the midst of the flame, to the height of about two feet above the vessel.
A delicate photographic paper may be formed by washing unsized paper with an alcoholic solution of guaiacum resin, and afterwards with one of neutral acetate of lead.
Recent guaiacum shavings, from which the dust has been sifted, 3 cwt.
For phlegmatic constitutions nothing can be better than the decoction of guaiacum wood with a little disclaim, taken fasting in the morning, for twelve days consecutively, without producing sweating.
To produce sweating, employ cardus water, and mithridate, or a decoction of guaiacum and sarsaparilla.
Gum guaiacum is also a great producer of perspiration, and sarsaparilla pills, taken every night before going to bed are also highly to be recommended.
The Guaiacum[113] is noticeable for its hard and heavy wood, generally known as Lignum Vitae, sometimes as Guaiacum wood, and occasionally as Brazil wood.
These bushes or coppices mainly consist of the Prosapis glandulosa, the Guaiacum angustifolium, the Xanthoxylum inerme and a few Acacias.
The Spirituous Water of Guaiacum possesses the property of giving ease in the tooth-ache, and fastening the teeth in their sockets.
Spirit ofGuaiacum is prepared by infusing two ounces of Guaiacum Shavings in a quart of Brandy, ten or twelve days, shaking the vessel now and then.
It is not absolutely indicative of the presence of blood, for tincture of guaiacum is coloured blue by milk, saliva, and pus.
Guaiacum and aconite may be given with equal benefit in any form preferred by the prescriber.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guaiacum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
