ELATERIUM

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 10

(Or. tXavvtiv, to stimulate.) This substance, commonlv called extract of elaterium, is obtained from the fruit of the Momordica elaterium, or squirting encumber, which, if gathered a little before it ripens and the jiice gently expre ed, deposits a green sediment, which is collected and dried. In the dose of from one 389 [s. 403]