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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Scatalogic rites of all nations : a dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious ... 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : W.H. Lowdermilk & Co., 1891
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101486300
    ... poison, the pleasant ceremony of kissing under the mistletoe may have some reference to this belief." In vol. iii. p. 343, it is stated : " A Worcestershire farmer was accus- tomed to take down his bough of mistletoe and give it to the cow that calved ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Compilation of notes and memoranda bearing upon the use of human ordure and human urine in ... 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : [publisher not identified], 1888
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101165890
    ... poison, the pleasant ceremony of kissing under the mistletoe may have some reference to this belief. In vol. 3, p. 343, it is stated: A Worcestershire farmer was accustomed to take down his bough of mistletoe and give it to the cow that calved ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - The student's book of cutaneous medicine and diseases of the skin 
    Publication: New York : William Wood & Co., 1865
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/67510700R
    ... of honey, or resembling the juice of the mistletoe, or sometimes oil." Kerion presents two principal varieties, having reference to its distribution ; namely, kerion confertum and kerion ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Phoradendron flavescens, Nutt. (American mistletoe) 
    Publication: [Detroit?] : [G.S. Davis?], [1889?]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101767209
    Phoradendron flavescens, Nutt. (American mistletoe) ... Phoradendron flavescens, Nutt. (American mistletoe) Rusby, Henry Hurd, 1855-1940. Phoradendron [Detroit?] : [G.S. Davis?], [1889?] Text Illustrations Plates 9 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - Studies of nature (Volume 3) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Printed by Abraham Small, for Birch & Small, M. Carey, C. & A. Conrad & Co., W. W. Woodward, Jacob Johnson, and Kimber and COnrad, in Philadelphia ; Thomas and Andrews, Boston ; Campbell and Mitchell, New-York ; and Backus and Whiting, Albany, 1808
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0220231X3
    ... skins of weasels. He bore a branch of mistletoe in his hand, and at his girdle hung ... always bearing in his hand a branch of mistletoe from the oak. Immediately the young bar- barians ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - The dispensatory of the United States of America 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1874
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101539501
    ... Oct. 10, 1867, p. 212.) W. VISCUM ALBUM. Mistletoe. A European evergreen parasitic shrub, growing on various ... In the religious rites of the Druids the mistletoe of the oak was employed, and 1720 Whiting.— ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Lexicon medicum, or, Medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, .... 
    Publication: New York : E. Bliss & E. White, How, Spaulding & Dwight, F. & R. Lockwood, and J.V. Seaman, 1822
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/62720720R
    ... animal machine in preserving life. Vi'scum album. Mistletoe. This singu- lar parasitical plai*|i most commonly ... the branches of trees where they vegetate. The mistletoe of the oak has, from the times of ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Principles of comparative physiology 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Blanchard and Lea, 1854
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61250560R
    ... parasitism have a peculiar interest when viewed with reference to this subject. The Phanerogamic parasites maybe arranged under two groups; those provided with leaves, belonging for the most part to the order Loranthacece (or mistletoe tribe) ; and those which are destitute of leaves, ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - The pharmaceutical products of Frederick Stearns & Co 
    Publication: Detroit, Mich. : Frederick Stearns & Co., [1903]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/100892352
    ... Peumus Boldus Boldo. Peumus fragrans* Boldo. Phoradendron flavescens .... Mistletoe. Pickpocket Shepherd’s Purse. Picraena cxcelsa Quassia. Picramnia (sp. ... Creeper American Ivy. Virginia Snakeroot Serpentaria. Viscum flavescens* Mistletoe. Vitis quinquefolia* American Ivy. Wake Robin Indian Turnip ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Principles of physiology, general and comparative 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Blanchard and Lea, 1851
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61250550R
    ... parasitism have a peculiar interest when viewed with reference to this subject. The Phanerogamic parasites may be arranged under two groups ; those provided with leaves, belonging for the most part to the order Loranthacec/e or mistletoe tribe; and those which are destitute of leaves, ...
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