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  1. NLM Digital Collections - The encyclopedia of pure materia medica: a record of the positive effects of drugs upon the ... 
    Publication: New York : Boericke & Tafel, [c1874]-79
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/64240040RX10
    ... in seven and thirteen minutes) ; 18 (iu seventeen LUFFA—MELILOTUS. 577 minutes) ; 17 (in twenty-two minutes) ; ... 99^° (in seventy-eight and ninety-two minutes). LUFFA. Dried fruit of a Brazilian plant called Cabacinha. ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Chronological history of plants : man's record of his own existence illustrated through their ... 
    Publication: Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1879
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/60911110R
    ... Bombay “ toorai ” or “ gosalee ” (Graham), and species of Luffa in Sanscrit “ kosataki ” (J. F. Wats.) : the “kosataki” ... and called “kyet-hen-kha,” used in curries. Luffa acutangula of Tropical Eastern Asia. The ridged gourd ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - A manual of organic materia medica and pharmacognosy : an introduction to the study of the ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1895
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101646760
    ... Carota, 239. Ceratonia, 149. Diospyros, 342. Embelia, 239. Luffa, 218. Lyco- persicum, 397. Mangostana, 62. Momordica, 219. ... A. Root. BRYONIA, 216. B. Fruits. COLOCYNTHIS, 217. Luffa, 218. Momordica, 219. C. Seeds. PEPO, 220. Citrullus, ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Medical botany, or, Descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine : with their ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1847
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61640180R
    ... 216 Momordica, 70, 216 Citrullus, . 216 Ecbalium, 218 Luffa, . CONTENTS. XI11 Bryonia, . 311 Asterales, Saxifragales, 71,312 ... a grain. (See Dunglison, Gen. Therap. i. 202.) Luffa.— Tournefort. Petals 5, inserted on the base of ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - The national dispensatory : containing the natural history, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, and ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., 1884
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101651999
    ... Towel. The fibrous network of the fruit of Luffa aegyptiaca, Miller (Momordica Luffa, Linn^; nat. ord. Cucurbitaceae), has been used to ... similar names, like a sponge and flesh-brush. Luffa Petola, Seringe, and L. foetida, Cavanilles, yield similar ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - The national dispensatory : containing the natural history, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, and ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., 1886
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101652005
    ... Towel. The fibrous network of the fruit of Luffa aegyptiaca. Miller (Momordica Luffa, Linn^; nat. ord. Cucurbitaceae), has been used to ... similar names, like a sponge and flesh-brush. Luffa Petola, Seringe, and L. foetida, Cavanilles, yield similar ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - King's American dispensatory 
    Publication: Cincinnati : Ohio Valley Co., 1898-[1900?]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101515929
    ... of India.-Purgative Cucumis prophetarum, Linnaeus.-Arabia. Purgative. Luffa operculata, Cogn.-Brazil. The drastic fruit of this ... native habitat (Amer. Jour. Pharm., Vol. 56). For Luffa echinata, Roxburgh and its constituents, see Amer. Jour. ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - The dispensatory of the United States of America 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1894
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101539506
    ... of litmus appears to PART II. Loco Plants.—Luffa. 1677 be, that potash or soda is added, ... them see Pharm. Rundschau, 1888. See also Monesia. LUFFA. Luffa JEgyptiaca. Vegetable Sponge. Wash-rag Sponge. Gourd ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army. Authors ... 
    Publication: Washington : G.P.O., 1880-1932
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/8104689X25
    ... 12°. New York, W. Wood cf Co., 1899. Luffa echinata. Kirtikar (K. R.) A case of poisoning by devdangar (Luffa echinata). Tr.M. & Phys. Soc. Bombay (1887), 1888, ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Series 4, ... 
    Publication: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1936-1948
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/8104688X9
    ... Mary Hosp. Gaz., Lond., 1938, 44: 56-8. LUFFA. See also Cucurbitaceae. Grewal, K. S., & Kochhar, B. D. ... a acutangula; the chemical and pharmacological investigation of luffa seeds. Ind. J. M. Res., 1943, 31: 63- ...
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