单词 | gillenin |
释义 | gilleninn. Now historical and rare. A substance extracted from the root of a gillenia plant (esp. Gillenia trifoliata), used as an emetic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > emetic > plant-based stavesacrea1400 vomiting nut1575 Paraguay herb1717 violine1829 violina1836 lobelia1849 gillenin1856 viola1868 1856 W. B. Stanhope in Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 28 202 I think an elegant mode of administering gillenin, would be in the form of the alcoholic watery extractive. 1889 I. J. M. Goss Textbk. Materia Medica, Pharmacol., & Special Therapeutics (ed. 2) xiv. 371 As a tonic, the dose of gillenin is from one-fourth to half a grain, repeated twice or thrice a day. 1933 Jrnl. Amer. Pharmaceut. Assoc. 22 520 Stanhope, in 1856, isolated a substance from the root cortex which he named ‘Gillenin’, corroborated in 1877 by Wetherill. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1856 |
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