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See also:SUMBUL, or SUMBAL , also called See also:Musk See also:Root, a See also:drug occasion-ally employed in See also:European medical practice. It consists of the root of Ferula sumbul, See also:Hook., a tall Umbelliferous plant found in the See also:north of See also:Bokhara, its range apparently extending beyond the See also:Amur. It was first brought to See also:Russia in 1535 as a substitute for musk; and in 1867 was introduced into the See also:British See also:pharmacopoeia. The root as found in See also:commerce consists of transverse sections an See also:inch or more in thickness and from 1 to 3 or more inches in See also:diameter. It has a dark thin papery bark, a spongy texture, and the cut See also:surface is marbled with See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white and blackish or See also:pale See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown; it has a musky odour and a See also:bitter aromatic See also:taste. The See also:action and uses of the drug are the same as those of asafetida (q.v.) It owes its medicinal properties to a See also:resin and an essential oil. Of the former it contains about 9% and of the latter a %. The resin is soluble in See also:ether and has a musky See also:smell, which is not fully See also:developed until after contact with See also:water.
Under the name of See also:East See also:Indian sumbul, the root of Dorema See also:ammoniacum, See also:Don., has occasionally been offered in See also:English cornmerce. It is of a browner See also:hue, has the taste of ammoniacum, and gives a much darker See also:tincture than the genuine drug; it is thus easily detected. The name " sumbal " (a word of Arabic origin,signifying a spike or See also:ear) is applied to several fragrant roots in the East, the See also:principal being Nardostachys.jatamansi, D.C. (see See also:- SPIKENARD, or NARD (O. Fr. spiquenard, Lat. spica nardi, from spica, ear of corn, and Gr. vapSos, Pers. nard, Skt. nalada, Indian spikenard, from Skt, nal, to smell)
SPIKENARD). See also:West See also:African sumbul is the root of a See also:species of Cyperus.
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