PISCIDIA

(Lat.), n. f. Pias-siad(ki2d)'ia-aS. From piscis, a fish, and ccedere, to slay. 1. A genus of leguminous trees, scarcely different from Lonchoccirpus. [B, 42, 121 (a, 35).] 2. The root-bark of P. erythrina. [a, 48.] Extractum piscidiw fluidum. A fluid extract made by treating p. in a percolator with a mixture of 3 parts of alcohol and 1 part of water. [B, 81 (a, 38).] P. cart hag in ens is. Fr., p. de Carthage, bois d enivrer. Black dogwood, Jamaica bitch-wood. The branches and leaves are used to stupefy fish. A tincture of the root-bark is used for pdontalgia. [B, 19, 173, 275 (a, 35).] P. erythrina. Fr., bois d enivrer (ou de chien, ou enivrant). Ger.,jamaikanischerKornelkirschbaum, Hundsbeerbaum. Jamaica white dogwood, fish-poison tree. The leaves, twigs, and root-bark have long been used to stupefy fish. The root-bark is narcotic, diaphoretic, and laxative, and is recommended in neuralgia, insomnia, whooping-cough, etc. It contains piscidin. [B, 5, 173, 180, 275 (a, 35).] U". blue; U3, lull: U, full; U5, urn; U, like u (German). [s. 277]