ra Sagrada
Bark of the cascara [buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana) native to northwest
North America], used as a cathartic or laxative.

Catechu
Several astringent substances obtained from tropical plants, including
Acacia catechu and A. suma; used in medicine, dyeing, tanning, etc.

Chloral Hydrate
Colorless crystalline compound, CCl3CH(OH)2, used as a sedative.

Cloaca
Common cavity into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals
open in birds, reptiles, amphibians and many fishes.

Creosote
Colorless to yellowish oily liquid containing phenols and creosols,
obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, especially from
the wood of a beech, and formerly used as an expectorant in treating
chronic bronchitis.

Crepitating
Crackling or popping sound.

Drench
Administer medicine to an animal by force.

Dropsical
Edematous; swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid.

Extravasation
To force the flow of (blood or lymph) from a vessel out into surrounding
tissue.

Fenugreek
Trigonella foenum-graecum; Plant of the legume family, cultivated for
forage and for its mucilaginous seeds used in medicine.

Fomenting
Application of warm liquid, ointments, etc., to the surface of the body.

Fowler's Solution
Aqueous solution of potassium arsenite used in medicine to treat some
diseases of the blood or skin.

Frog
Triangular mass of elastic, horny substance in the middle of the sole of
the foot of a horse.

Gentian
Rhizome [root-like subterranean stem] and roots of a yellow-flowered
gentian (Gentiana lutea) of southern Europe used as a tonic and
stomachic [beneficial to the stomach].

Glauber's salt,
Sodium sulfate decahydrate, Na2SO4.10H2O; also called mirabilite; used
in medicine as a mild laxative.

Iodoform
Triiodomethane. Yellowish, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, CHI3.
Analogous to chloroform, used as an antiseptic.

Methylene blue
Heterocyclic (ring structure with atoms besides carbon, such as sulfur,
oxygen, nitrogen,) aromatic chemical compound with the molecular
formula: C16H18ClN3S.

Middlings
Coarsely ground wheat mixed with bran.

Nitrate of Potash
Potassium nitrate, a mineral source of nitrogen. KNO3.
Also called saltpetre.

Nux Vomica
Orangelike fruit of an East Indian tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, of the
logania family, containing strychnine, used in medicine.

Origanum
Aromatic plants, including the sweet marjoram (O. Marjorana) and the
wild marjoram (O. vu