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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Medical lexicon : a dictionary of medical science : containing a concise account of the ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1846
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101515244
    ... An'tidote. A powder, com- posed of myrrh, costus, white pepper, &c It was administered in new ... mum al- bum, Cortex Andscorbu'dcus, C. Aromalicus, Costus cortico'sus, Camin'ga, Canella of Lin- naeus, ...
  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
    ... of Cashmere. An imported root called in commerce costus, in Arabic “kust ” (Royle), in Egyptian “ ris ”—(Edw.) ; ... in question was traced by Falconer to A. costus, observed by him growing in the valley of ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Quincy's Lexicon-medicum : a new medical dictionary, containing an explanation of the terms ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by E. & R. Parker, M. Carey & Son, and Benjamin Warner, 1817
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/2557010R
    ... BALSAMITA MAS. (From balsamum.) Balsumita major. Tanacetum hortense. Costus hortornm. Costomary, or alecost. The plant which bears ... the ca- ryophyllus, and xorivoc, cAnposed of the costus.) An electuary, named from its in- gredients. CARYOPHYLLATA. ( ...