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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 618 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COCCULUS INDICUS , the commercial name for the dried fruits of Anamirta Cocculus (natural

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order Menispermaceae), a large climbing

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SHRUB

shrub, native to

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India . It contains a

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BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter poisonous principle,

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PICROTOXIN

picrotoxin, used in small doses to

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CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

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NIGHT

night sweats of

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PHTHISIS (Gr. 49Lnns " wasting ")

phthisis . It was formerly known as

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LEVANT

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nut and Levant

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shell, owing to the fact that it was brought to

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EUROPE

Europe by way of the Levant .

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