Quassia

Quassia, one-half pound; Gentian Root, one pound; Iron Sulphate, one pound; pulverize and mix well.

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Shrub or small tree, Quassia amara, of tropical America, having wood with a bitter taste.

The Veterinarian

-- 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.

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Steam this slowly for an hour, then add thirty drops Quassia.

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That sold in the shops is the tough, fibrous, bitter bark of the root of _Simaruba (Quassia) excelsa_ and _officinalis_, very large forest trees, growing in Cayenne, Jamaica, and other parts of the West

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Quassia acts as a narcotic poison on flies and other insects.

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In dropsical diseases, I have effected this result most frequently, for years past, by means of Carduus mariæ, less frequently by Quassia, still less frequently by Nux vomica, and only in a few cases by Chelidonium: according as one or the other of these agents seemed indicated by the epidemic character of the disease.

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Quassia-chips were given to each to steep in water, but carefully tied up in different coloured cotton bags.

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Shrub or small tree of tropical America, Quassia amara.

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Quassia-wood, the acorus calamus, and other bitters and aromatics, were tried; but that which seemed to succeed best was the bark and kernel of the horse-chestnut.

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