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  1. ... in which Dr. Beer described how the Jamaica periwinkle (Vinca rosea) injected into rats caused a dramatic fall ... on hematopoietic effects in rats of extracts of Vinca rosea before the Canadian Physiological Society. The Proceedings ...
  2. 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
    ... naean system. Class, Pentandria. Order, Monogynia. The -herb periwinkle, or per- vincle. Vi'bca mi'nor. The systematic name of the lesser periwinkle. Vinca pervinca. Cler matis'daphnoides major. It possesses ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - The London medical dictionary: including, under distinct heads, every branch of medicine, viz.... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Mitchell, Ames, and White ; William Brown, printer, 1819
    ... not very active, medicines associated with it. The vinca per- vinca is undoubtedly an astringent, and employed chiefly in ... only slightly stimulant. The sea snail, called the periwinkle, is often eaten as a common food; in ...
  4. ... I INux v, HPetrol., IPuls, IRhus, IISul, IITelb, Vinca; in blepharitis, lArg. met, IBelb; with burning, especially ... prosopalgia, I IVerbas.; foggy, while reading or walking, Vinca; foggy, while reading or looking at a bright ...
  5. ... vir........ Verbas......... Verb, has..... Vib. op........ Vib. prun..... Vinca........... Viola od...... Viola trie..... Vise, alb...... Weythia...... Xanthox..... ...
  6. ... chest, in evening (twenty-ninth day). 128 VICHY—VINCA. Neck and Back.—[120.] Painful stiffness of the ... sleep is more prolonged than usual (ninetieth day). VINCA. Vinca minor, Linn. Natural order, Apocynacese. Common names, ...
  7. ... 6. Mollusca.—Mollusks. The Oyster, the Mussel, the Periwinkle, the Cockle, the Whelk, and the SEEDS. 97 ... that many medicinal substances may be administered with safety, and, in certain maladies, with advantage, in doses ...
  8. ... or proof spirit. Vin'ca Mi'nor.* Common Periwinkle, an evergreen trailing plant of the order Apocynacece, ...
  9. ... 289.—Where prevalent, 34. Pepper, 313. Periodicity, 95. Periwinkle, 269. Perry, 365. Perspiration modified by the air, ...
  10. ... 1 Bivalve, as oysters, muscles, cockles; ( Turbinate, as periwinkles, snails, &c. t Lesser, as insects of all ... skill'd, Cities for use, and forts for safety build: Then palaces and lofty domes arose; These ...
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