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The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines

Note 4 — Dicotyledonous, Gamopetalous.

Jerome Beers Thomas translation

The trunk bark is tonic and febrifuge; Mr. Bernon4 has isolated from it a crystalline alkaloid, sapotine, soluble in ether, chloroform or alcohol, but not in water; a large per cent. of sapotanic acid and two resins.

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