10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COPALM»
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copalm in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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American Indian Medicine
1089 Sweet gum was the “copal” or “copalm” of the French and Spanish. Bossu
related that “some trees contain copal, a gummy substance which is a balm as
good as that made in Peru. Animals wounded by hunters cure themselves by ...
So that if a plant of this species of liane grew one foot, for instance, from any
common tree, and two feet from the copalm tree, its branches would forthwith
diverge towards the latter. A decoction of this plant is of singular use in curing
fevers, ...
3
A Glossary of Mississippi Valley French, 1673-1850
Consult also: Dart, “Marriage Contracts of French Colonial Louisiana”; Cruzat, “
Marriage Contract of d'Iberville”; Porteous, “Marriage Contracts of the Spanish
Period in Louisiana.” copal, copalm, n.m. The liquidambar or sweet gum tree.
John Francis McDermott, 1941
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Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, ...
A kind of oil, called copalm, is extracted from it in Mexico, which, when solidified,
is called copalm resin ; this is an excitant of the mucous system, and it is given in
chronic catarrhs, and in aifoc- tions of the lungs, intestines and urinary passages
...
Francis Peyre Porcher, 1869
A kind of oil, called copalm, is extracted from it in Mexico, which, when solidified,
is called copalm resin : this is an excitant of the mucous system, and it is given in
chronic catarrhs, and in affections of the lungs, intestines, and urinary passages ...
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The Scrabble Word-Building Book: Updated Edition
... coopt COPILOT -; copilots COOPED scooped; - COP sc p; copings COOPER
scooper; COPAIBA -; - coopers, COPLOT -; copalm, coopals COPALM -; copouts
COOPERS scoopers; - COPPED -; - COOPING scooping; - COPPER -; coppers, ...
The fragrant gum from L. styraciflua, also called copalm balm, American copalm,
and storax, is obtained from the inner bark after wounding or gashing a tree. This
gum has a long history of use by the Aztecs and people farther north (Standley ...
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Resources of the southern fields and forests medical ...
A kind of oil, called copalm, i's extracted from it in Mexico, which, when solidified,
is called copalm resin ; this is an excitant of the mucous system, and it is given in
chronic catarrhs, and in affections of the lungs, intestines, and urinary passages.
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The London Medical Gazette
In Mexico and Louisiana there is obtained from the stem, by making incisions in it
, a liquid resin called liquidambar or copalm balsam. Commerce presents this in
two forms — one liquid and transparent, the other solid and opaque, or nearly so
...
10
A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America
... as Gum tree, and to furniture salesmen the wood is plain Gum, or Gum wood,
which is confusingly ambiguous, since many trees are called so. In the
pharmaceutical trade the name for the exudate of this tree is liquid- amber, or
copalm balm ...
Donald Culross Peattie, 1948
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COPALM»
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Jurassic Park theory disproved by scientists who rule dinosaur DNA …
"Our results raise further doubts about claims of DNA extraction from fossil insects in amber, many millions of years older than copalm," they ... «The Independent, Sep 13»
