428 A COMPENDIUM OF 
a purgative acting violently. Examples: 
castor oil, eleterium, etc. 
Drug—(Fr. drouge, drug, Dutch, aroog, ary, 
hot, of a pungent nature). A medicine, a 
substance slow of sale; drugging; drugged; 
and druggist, one who deals in drugs, not 
necessarily an apothecary. : 
Drupe—drup (Lat druppa, an over-ripe 
wrinkled olive). Any fruit containg a hard 
stone. Examples: peach, cherry, plum. 
Drupel—dro’-pel. A fleshy or pulpy fruit con- 
taining many small hard-seed, as the black- 
berry, currant, etc. 
Drupaceous—Formed or like a drupe in char- 
acter. 
Dulcamara—dul’ka-ma’-ra (Lat. dulcis, sweet, 
and amarus, bitter). A common European 
hedge plant, a medicine. Bitter-sweet, woody 
nightshade; taste, first bitter then sweet. 
Dura-mater — du’ra-ma’ter (Lat. duras, hard, 
and mater, a mother). The membrane of the 
brain, the external one, the piamater being 
the inner one. 
Duramen—du-ra’men Lat. duramen Lat, hard- 
ness, from dures, hard). The inner or heart 
wood of trees, the hardest part of the wood. 
Edible—ed’-i-b] (Lat. edo, I eat). Any plant 
or flesh or fruit suitable for food, fit to be 
eaten. 
E ffloresce—ef’ -flo-res’ (Lat. efforescere, to - 
blow or bloom, as a flower, from ex, out, and 
fios, a flower), A term used in chemistry 
when a salt gives up its water of crystalliza- 
tion, 
Efflorescence—a plant in flower or bloom. 
