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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 See also:

order Menispermaceae), a large climbing See also:

SHRUB

shrub, native to See also:

India. It contains a See also:

BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter poisonous principle, See also:

PICROTOXIN

picrotoxin, used in small doses to See also:

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)

control the See also:

NIGHT

night sweats of See also:

PHTHISIS (Gr. 49Lnns " wasting ")

phthisis. It was formerly known as See also:

LEVANT

Levant See also:

nut and Levant See also:

shell, owing to the fact that it was brought to See also:

EUROPE

Europe by way of the Levant.

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