Crossword-Solution: ASARABACCA 10 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

There was some difficulty too as to medical attendance, for we had cashiered our Surgeon--that is to say, he had run away at Grande in the Brazils, to marry a brown Portugee woman; and the Doctor of Physic he was all for Herbal Treatment, demanding Succory, Agrimony, Asarabacca, Knights-pound-wort, Cuckoo-point, Hulver-bush, with Alehoof, and other things not to be found in this part of the World.

Other Common Names--Asarum, wild ginger, Indian ginger, Vermont snakeroot, heart-snakeroot, southern snakeroot, black snakeroot, colt's-foot, snakeroot, black snakeweed, broadleaved asarabacca, false colt's-foot, cat's foot, colicroot.

According to Gräger[84], asarabacca contains three volatile, oily principles, which may be obtained by distillation with water:——VOLATILE OIL (o′leum as′ari):——AS′ARITE, an odourless, tasteless, and crystalline solid; fusible and volatilisable, yielding white and very irritating fumes:——AS′ARUM-CAM′PHOR, differing chiefly from the last in being precipitated, by water, from its alcoholic solution in cubes or six-sided prisms, instead of delicate flexible needles.

Asarabacca, euphorbium, several of the _labiatæ_ (herbæ _vel_ flores), sal-ammoniac, powdered sugar, subsulphate of mercury, tobacco, and white hellebore, are the principal substances of this class.

The following mixture is attenuant: Of pepper and Macedonian parsley, two parts, of asarabacca and anise, one half.