guaiacum

• “Contains images as well as text written in Spanish and Náhuatl. gente de razon: "civilized" people. guaiacum: wood from a tree native to the West Indies, used as a medicine, especially for syphilis; sometimes called "palo santo." limpieza de sangre: "purity of blood"; the absence of Jewish or Muslim ancestors.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “Chocolate was not the only American product to do so — tobacco, sarsaparilla, and guaiacum were just a few of the other new plants to accumulate fantastic claims of curing power to their names.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “This was guaiacum, sometimes called palo santo, a wood from a tree native to the West Indies.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “He continues with advice on how to recognize and treat the disease with various substances and techniques such as sarsaparilla, guaiacum, various ointments, and fumigation.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “Scoltzii, make frequent and good use of guaiacum and China,”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “The most active part of the tuber lies just beneath the skin, as may be shown by pouring some tincture of guaiacum over the cut surface of a Potato, when a ring of blue forms close to the skin, and is darkest there while extending over the whole cut surface.”

  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

• “It is not absolutely indicative of the presence of blood, for tincture of guaiacum is coloured blue by milk, saliva, and pus.”

  Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

• “= -- Tincture of guaiacum produces in the watery solution a reddish-white precipitate of the resin, but on addition of an aqueous solution of peroxide of hydrogen, or of an ethereal solution of the same substance (known as _ozonic ether_), a blue or bluish-green colour is developed.”

  Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

• “-- Take a teaspoonful of the tincture of gum guaiacum and one teaspoonful of vinegar; mix well and apply to the affected parts.”

  Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889

• “Take of 95 percent alcohol 2 quarts, and add to it the following articles: oils of sarsafras and hemlock, spirits of turpentine, balsam of fir, chloriform, tincture of catechu and guaiacum, of each 1 oz., oil of origanum 2 oz., oil of wintergreen 1/2 oz., and gum of camphor 1/2 oz.”

  Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets

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