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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This was guaiacum, sometimes called palo santo, a wood from a tree native to the West Indies. ❋ Unknown (2008)
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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Scoltzii, make frequent and good use of guaiacum and China, ❋ Unknown (2007)
= -- 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. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
-- Take a teaspoonful of the tincture of gum guaiacum and one teaspoonful of vinegar; mix well and apply to the affected parts. ❋ Barkham Burroughs (N/A)
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. ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)
It cannot be stopped by bleeding, or sweating, or purging, by niter, by tartar emetic, by guaiacum, by alkalies, by salines, by salicylic acid, or by anything else. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)
It is not absolutely indicative of the presence of blood, for tincture of guaiacum is coloured blue by milk, saliva, and pus. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Here grows, also, lingnum sanctum, or guaiacum: its virtues are very well known, more especially to those who observe not the Seventh Commandment, and are given to impure copulations! ❋ George Alfred Williams (1903)
True it is, that here grows some small quantity of lignum sanctum, or guaiacum, of whose use we say something in another place. ❋ George Alfred Williams (1903)
The old guaiacum test was very clumsy and uncertain. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)
The leaves have been affirmed to be violently purgative, and are employed as a substitute for guaiacum. ❋ Unknown (1863)
A resin, called gum guaiacum, exudes from the stem, and is otherwise obtained from the wood by artificial means. ❋ William Saunders (1861)
Here grow the jalap and the guaiacum, the sweet-scented sassafras and the sanitary copaiba. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The tigrero, in this case, arms himself with a short spear, the shaft of which is made of a strong hard wood, either a _guaiacum_, or a piece of the split trunk of one of the hardwood palms. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
