Ipecacuanha played an important part in the town's history, and it was one of the largest exporters of rubber in the world.
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Named from Doctor Thomas Dover, an ipecacuanha ( which was formerly used to produce syrup of ipecac ), opium in powder, and potassium sulfate.
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It may cause gastric problems, including vomiting and gastroenteritis as referenced in the obsolete scientific name " S . ipecacuanha " ( roughly " ipecac nightshade " ).
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He kept in regular written contact with his friend Robert Christison, and sent him supplies of Ipecacuanha from Brazil, this being the basis of a drug used to treat dysentery.
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King obtained an M . B . in 1865 and joined the Indian Medical Service on 2 October, carrying with him an Ipecacuanha plant from Hooker, left for India in March and reached Calcutta on April 11, 1866.
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In the 19th Century, women prisoners at the Cascades Female Factory, Tasmania, were routinely given " a grain or so of ipecacuanha " as a precaution, especially " upon ladies with gross health and fiery temperaments ."
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The part of ipecacuanha used in medicine is the root, which is simple or divided into a few branches, flexuous, and is composed of rings of various size, somewhat fleshy when fresh, and appearing as if closely strung on a central woody cord.
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In 1827 he won the Medico-Botanical Society s gold medal for his report on the medical properties of Ipecacuanha with the silver medal going to John Peter Yosy ( presumably his brother-in-law ) for his paper on Menyanthes Trifiliata ( Buckbean ).
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He did much to improve the garden, and introduced valuable medicinal plants, especially cinchona and ipecacuanha : to him is due the institution of the experiments which led to the successful cultivation of the former in India, and he issued many valuable reports upon the subject.
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Tradition states that El Almendro was founded in 1892, when Nery L�pez, Perfecto Romero Acosta, Francisco Gonz�lez, and others, searchers of rubber trees and growers of Ipecacuanha ( known locally as raicilleros ) arrived looking for rubber and Ipecacuanha ( known locally as raicilla ).
