To impart to the beer a bitter taste, the fraudulent brewer employed quassia wood and wormwood as a substitute for hops.
It requires but little discrimination to distinguish very clearly the peculiar bitterness ofquassia in adulterated porter.
Beer rendered bitter by quassia never keeps well, unless it be kept in a place possessing a temperature considerably lower than the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere; and this is not well practicable in large establishments.
Another substance, composed of extract of quassia and liquorice juice, used by fraudulent brewers to economise both malt and hops, is technically called multum.
In all probability they would be found to belong to the Quassia tribe, the natural order Simarubaceae, plants of the tropical regions of both continents, whose juices are of an intense bitterness.
As desire for liquor abates the quassia can be given less frequently, until it is no longer needed.
When caused by the presence of seat-worms, they must be dislodged by purgatives and enemata of quassia or of one composed of one part of carbolic acid to six parts of sweet oil, or of turpentine and flaxseed tea.
Strychnia with quassiaor columbo stimulates the appetite and the gastric digestion.
Quassia or other vegetable bitters can be given if the appetite is languid; the bitters are, as a rule, of little benefit, and may do harm if diarrhoea exists.
Defn: An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops.
Jamaica quassia; and also of the "Quassia amara, Linn.
Quassia is characterised by its intense bitterness.
In some samples, lately examined, thequassia amounted to 70 per cent.
When sliced, it forms the 'quassia chips' of the shops.
A mixture of extract of quassia and liquorice, used by fraudulent brewers instead of malt and hops.
An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops.
Quassia Quassia is a simple tonic, and can be used with safety by any one, as it does not increase the animal heat, or quicken the circulation.
Take of Epsom salts one ounce, diluted sulphuric acid one drachm, infusion of quassia chips half an imperial pint, compound tincture of rhubarb two drachms.
It is absurd to suppose that a complex mixture of drugs in fixed proportions can have the actions claimed for Quassia Compound Tablets.
If your patient is constipated because the stomach is not sufficiently energetic, the Quassia stimulates that organ to an increased secretion of digestive fluids and sets it to working normally.
Exercise, perfect cleanliness, the early morning sluice-down with cold water, and a quassia tonic.
If from pinworms in the rectum, the itching of the tail may be remedied by an occasional injection of a quart of water in which chips of quassia wood have been steeped for 12 hours.
These enemas may be made up with one or two tablespoonfuls of salt to the pint, or infusions of quassia chips, a half pound to the gallon of water, and injected into the rectum once or twice a day.
Soft soap dissolved in water makes a cheap and effectual wash for exterminating all kinds of Aphis, and to these ingredients quassia may with advantage be added.
One pound of soft soap will suffice for ten gallons of water, into which stir the extract obtained by boiling one pound of quassia chips in water.
Their depredations can be prevented by an application of water flavoured with quassia or paraffin oil, which must be repeated after rain.
The finger of silence lay on the lip of Nature, even the broad leaves of the quassia rising and falling on the shifting breaths of air, without that peculiar rustling sound generally belonging to the forest domain.
In the case of the hop the most effective remedy is a solution of quassia and soft soap.
Surinam quassia is not, however, to be met with now.
Quassia acts as a narcotic poison on flies and other insects.
The quassia wood of the pharmacopoeia was originally the product of Quassia amara, a tall shrub, never above fifteen feet high, native of Guiana, but also inhabiting Surinam and Colombia.
A solution of garlic is a very effective remedy and may be tried if the quassia fails, which is not likely if the treatment is carried out effectively and if the parts are kept scrupulously clean.
It is intended that the quassiawill remain in as long as possible, for at least half an hour.
From six to eight ounces of the infusion of quassia is then passed, as high up as the catheter will reach.
The green fly begins this month, and you should keep your Roses free from it, either with an aphis brush or by spraying with quassia chips and water as recommended on p.
Another way is to boil an ounce of quassia chips in a pint of water, and when cold to add two gallons of rain-water; then spray.
Various hop substitutes, in the form of powder, have been offered in commerce of late years, most of which appear to have quassia as a chief ingredient.
The soft soap serves as a vehicle to retain the bitterness of the quassia upon the bines and leaves, making them repulsive to the aphides, which are thus starved out.
Quassia and soft-soap solutions are usually employed; they contain from 4 lb.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quassia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
