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Turpentine and petroleum distillates such as coal oil and kerosene, were used in folk medicine for abrasions and wounds, as a treatment for lice, and when mixed with animal fat, as a chest rub or inhaler for nasal and throat ailments. [26] [27] Vicks chest rubs still contain turpentine in their formulations, although not as an active ingredient ...
The ingredients were turpentine, wax, gum ammoniac, birthwort roots, olibanum, bdellium, myrrh and galbanum, opoponax, verdigris, litharge, plus olive oil, and vinegar. [2] [3] Avicenna describes the ingredients and proportions of such a recipe in Qanun V.1.11.
A glass container containing tubocurarine chloride. Tubocurarine was used in ancient times as a poison, but was used in the 20th century as a muscle relaxant. Over time, different civilizations began to create their own herbal medicinal treatments for wounds depending on the trees, shrubs, or any other type of plants located in their environment.
The following is a table of drugs organized by their year of discovery. Naturally occurring chemicals in plants, including alkaloids, have been used since pre-history.In the modern era, plant-based drugs have been isolated, purified and synthesised anew.
Chloroform was first used as an anesthetic in 1847. [22] Derivatives of phenothiazines had an important impact on various aspects of medicine, beginning with methylene blue which was originally used as a dye after its synthesis from aniline in 1876. [23] Phenothiazines were used as antimalarials, antiseptics, and antihelminthics up to 1940. [24]
Camphine, made of spirits of turpentine, had a high carbon content and tended to smoke unless burned in a lamp with a chimney. [6] Burning fluid was a blend of alcohol and turpentine (one part spirits of turpentine and four parts highly distilled alcohol, according to a 1897 report for Congress [ 8 ] ) which allowed the turpentine to burn ...
The findings, published in a series of articles in Current Archaeology, come from one of the largest ancient DNA projects in Europe involving 460 people who were buried in graves between 200AD and ...
Dry fruit of Pistacia terebinthus (MHNT collection). Aphid Forda formicaria galls on the leaflets.. Pistacia terebinthus also called the terebinth / ˈ t ɛ r ə ˌ b ɪ n θ / and the turpentine tree, is a deciduous shrub species of the genus Pistacia, native to the Mediterranean region from the western regions of Morocco and Portugal to Greece and western and southeastern Turkey.