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benzyl benzoate

noun

Chemistry, Pharmacology.
  1. a colorless, faintly aromatic liquid, C 14 H 12 O 2 , used chiefly as a fixative and solvent in the manufacture of flavorings and perfume and in medicine in the treatment of certain skin conditions.


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Origin of benzyl benzoate1

First recorded in 1915–20
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"There aren't any of the ones they prescribed him, Benzyl benzoate, or the other one for itching too that used to be in all the pharmacies," said Rodriguez, buying medicinal plants at a shop on a commercial boulevard in Central Havana.

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Benzyl benzoate has been used recently to reduce the high blood pressure of hypertension.

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In recent years dermatologists have been curing itchers with benzyl benzoate, which causes less rash.

They are now experimenting with a concoction of DDT, benzyl benzoate to kill the mites and a secret ingredient which kills the eggs, in the skin-deep burrows.

Useful in carefully prescribed amounts are paregoric, codein, heroin, antipyrin, chloral hydrate, benzyl benzoate.

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