Crossword-Solution: SEBESTEN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sebesten | n. | The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and C. latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SEBESTEN | anagram | BEESNEST |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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ZEECAM
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eruption
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Sentences with SEBESTEN (5)
Damascenes, also, and the bones of the sebesten plum retained in the mouth, and rolled on the tongue, and the stem of the lettuce, answer well.
The patient is then to be made to drink barley-water in which jujubes and sebesten plums have been boiled; syrup of poppies is to be added, if the cough be troublesome, or the pain of the throat severe; and spoon-meats prepared with spinage, orach, and the like, are to be given.
Wherefore the patients must first drink a decoction of camomile, and of the fruit of the sebesten plum, or these medicines themselves may be given boiled.
When the fevers are not very troublesome we may mix with the sebesten plums some mint, and give them: and when there is no fever we may administer the more drastic medicines, such as the decoction of seriphum, or of calamint, or of fern, or the seed of cardamon, or a decoction of the root of acid pomegranate reduced to one third, or of toasted cumin, and of tawny-coloured natron, of each, scr.
When complicated with any other disorder he properly directs us to pay attention to it; after which the animals may readily be discharged by drinking oil, or a decoction of sebesten plums (myxæ), or of liquorice: these things, he says, will obviate constriction and swelling, while by lubricating the bowels they will promote the discharge of the worms.