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EUPHORBIUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 894 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUPHORBIUM  , an acrid dull-yellow or

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brown
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resin, consisting of the concreted milky juice of several
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species of
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Euphorbia,
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cactus-like perennial
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plants indigenous to
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Morocco . It dissolves in
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alcohol,
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ether and
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turpentine; in
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water it is only slightly soluble . It consists of two or more resins and a substanceeuphorbone, C20H36O or C15H24O .
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Pliny states that the name of the
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drug was given to it in
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honour of
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Euphorbus, the physician of
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Juba II.,
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king of
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Mauretania . In former times euphorbium was valued in
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medicine for its drastic, purgative and emetic properties .

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