Flora Medica

PAPAYACE.E.rather large, compressed. Radicle inferior. Hooker. The milkyjuice a powerful vermifuge the ; powder of the seeds has the sameproperty. Fibrine is contained in the juice in such abundance thatthe latter bears a most extraordinary resemblance to animal matter.Water impregnated with the milky juice makes meat washed with ittender : the same effect is produced when meat is suspended amongthe branches of the tree ; it first becomes tender and then passes intoa state of putridity. Vauqelin says that a sample of the juice which heexamined had the smell and taste of boiled beef. The leaves areused by negroes to wash linen instead of soap, and the fruit is eaten asa vegetable.I OK