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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 954 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MUCILAGE (from See also:Late See also:Lat. mucilago, a mouldy juice, from mucere, to be mouldy) , a See also:term which denotes a viscid or glutinous mixture of See also:water and any gummy See also:vegetable substance (see See also:GUM). Mucilages are useful in See also:medicine as vehicles for various insoluble and other drugs, and in the arts as thickeners (in See also:calico-See also:printing, See also:dyeing, &c.). The See also:British See also:pharmacopoeia contains the mucilages of See also:acacia and tragacanth.

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