Damiana

(Med.) An extract made from the leaves of various species of the Turner i a, a Mexican plant, thought to be valuable as a nerve tonic, especially in cases of sexual atony. Damien de Veuster, JOSEPH (FATHER DAMIEN), a Roman Catholic mi ionary; born in Belgium, Jan. 3, 1840. At the age of nineteen he was admitted to holy orders, and thenceforward practiced a life of self-denial which few, if any, have surpa ed. Learning of the terrible condition of the lepers, when on a mi ion to Honolulu, in 1873, he established himself among them. He was physician, teacher, magistrate, and carpenter, and a helper in all things. For twelve years he escaped the fatal disease, and then fell a prey to its virulence, though he worked on in his noble self-sacrifice till the last. Died April 15, 1889.