STILLING I A

(Lat.), n. f. Sti2l-i2n(i2n2)'ji2(gi2)-a3. From Stilling fleet, an English botanist. Fr., still in gie. Ger., Still in gie. 1. A genus of euphorbiaceous shrubs; by Baillon made a section of the genus Exccecaria. The Stillingiece are a tribe and the Stillingidece a division of the Euphorbiacece. 2. Of the U. S. Ph., the root of S. silvatic a. [a, 35.] Extractum stilling ire fluidum [U. S. Ph.]. A fluid extract made by exhausting 10 grammes of s.-root in No. 40 powder with alcohol of sp gr. 0'928, and bringing up to 100 c. c. [B, 95 (a, 38).] S. sebifera. Fr., arbre a suif. Ger., chines is cher Talgbaum. Chinese tallow-tree; cultivated in India and America. The seeds, which yield a fixed oil used externally in medicine and for burning, are thickly coated with a white tallowy substance (still i stearin, or Tanga wang fat), said to be nearly pure stearin, used for making candles, [a. 35.] S. silvatic a. Queen's delight (or -root), silver-leaf, yaw-root; the Exccecaria silvatic a. Its thick sub-cylindrical root, the s. of the U. S. Ph., is used as an alterative and especially in secondary syphilis, [a, 35.] [s. 541]