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tragacanth


  • n  a gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing

  • It is a paste of red cells (left over in plasma production), powdered tragacanth and hexylresorcinol.
  • They mixed blood plasma with a little sulfanilamide and some gum tragacanth to make a paste, used it on twelve second-degree burns.

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