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Acacia Doratoxylon
Spearwood Spear"wood`, n. (Bot.) An Australian tree (Acacia Doratoxylon), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears.
Gordonia Haematoxylon
Bloodwood Blood"wood, n. (Bot.) A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood. Note: Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the color of the wood, as Gordonia H[ae]matoxylon of Jamaica, and several species of Australian Eucalyptus; also the true logwood ( H[ae]matoxylon campechianum).
Haematoxylon
Haematoxylon H[ae]m`a*tox"y*lon, n. [NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma blood + ? wood.] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan.
Haematoxylon Campechianum
Logwood Log"wood` . [So called from being imported in logs.] The heartwood of a tree (H[ae]matoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called h[ae]matoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.
Haematoxylon campechianum
Bloodwood Blood"wood, n. (Bot.) A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood. Note: Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the color of the wood, as Gordonia H[ae]matoxylon of Jamaica, and several species of Australian Eucalyptus; also the true logwood ( H[ae]matoxylon campechianum).
Hematoxylin
Hematoxylin Hem`a*tox"y*lin, n. H[ae]matoxylin.

Meaning of Atoxyl from wikipedia

- A crystalline powder introduced medically in the late 19th century as Atoxyl, its sodium salt was used by injection in the early 20th century as the...
- engineered, synthetic medication was made by Paul Erlich. Erlich had found that Atoxyl, an ****nic-containing compound which is harmful to humans, was very effective...
- diminished use as attention turned to organic ****nicals, starting with Atoxyl. As ****nical compounds are notably toxic and carcinogenic—with side effects...
- "magic bullet" among chemical derivatives of the dangerously toxic drug atoxyl. Arsphenamine was used to treat the disease syphilis because it is toxic...
- with the dye trypan red. Beginning in 1906, he intensively investigated atoxyl and had it tested by Robert Koch along with other ****nic compounds during...
- by the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans). The first effective treatment, atoxyl, an ****nic-based drug developed by Paul Ehrlich and Kiyoshi Shiga, was...
- together with Paul Ehrlich, he elucidated the chemical constitution of atoxyl and synthesized innumerable ****nobenzene compounds. He was also responsible...
- Poison treatments Absorption, such as activated charcoal, Enterosgel and Atoxyl. Emetics to induce vomiting, such as syrup of ipecac although first aid...
- Breinl (1880-1944), he discovered in 1905 that the ****nic preparation Atoxyl killed trypanosomes, the causative agent of sleeping sickness. The studies...
- bullet approach to medicine – failed and switched to modifying Béchamp's atoxyl, the first organic ****nical drug, and serendipitously obtained a treatment...