Crossword-Solution: SARCOCOLLA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sarcocolla | n. | A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers. |
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| Persian medicinal gum | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
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greedy person
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Experiments, it is said, were made with this wax in painting in encaustic in the apartments of the Count Giovanni Battista Gasola by the Italian painter Antonio Paccheri, who dissolved the Punic wax when it was not so much hardened as to require to be "igni resoluta," as expressed by Pliny, with pure water slightly infused with gum-arabic, instead of sarcocolla, mentioned by Pliny.
From the sarcocolla[866] also—such is the name of a certain tree—a gum exudes that is remarkably useful to painters[867] and medical men; it is similar to incense dust in appearance, and for those purposes the white kind is preferable to the red.
The seed and leaves of roses act more mildly, but still more so gum traganth, sarcocolla, and starch, which we must use, if pained when repressed by astringents.
The following application recommended by Avicenna seems to be a judicious one: Take equal parts of litharge, ceruse, and sarcocolla; make a cerate with wax and rose-oil.
Some are prophylactics for preventing influxes, such as those from Phrygian stone, sarcocolla, glaucium, aloes, calamine, antimony, and saffron.