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  1. NLM Digital Collections - The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1846
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101507075X2
    ... Mexico. Cultivation.—The cochineal insects feed on the Nopal (Opuntia cochinil- lifera). Mr. Ward (Mexico in 1827, vol. ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea & Blanchard, 1843
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101507072X2
    ... Mexico. Cultivation.—The cochineal insects feed on the Nopal (Opuntia cochinil- lifera). Mr. Ward (Mexico in 1827, vol. ... Before the rainy season commences, branches of the nopal plant, loaded with ... Opuntia coc/dnillifera. destroyed by the weather. Commerce—In ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Traité de la culture du nopal, et de l'éducation de la cochenille dans les colonies ... 
    Publication: Au Cap-Français [i.e. Bordeaux?] : Chez la veuve Herbault ... ; À Paris: Chez Delalain, le jeune ... ; & à Bordeaux : Chez Bergeret ..., MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/2574027RX1
    ... fons; mais il n'y a que l'opuntia & le nopal qui en ayent de colorés , nous n'en ... végétale. Ce n'eft pas la couleur du nopal ni du fruit qui colore la cochenille ; celle qui vient fur l'opuntia Se fur la raquette blanche dont cxl Pièces ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Elements of chemistry: for the use of colleges, academies, and schools (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Parrish, Dunning, and Mears, 1852
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101587882X2
    ... cacti) is a small insect found on the nopal, (opuntia coccinillifera,) and furnishing the most brilliant red colours ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - The dispensatory of the United States of America 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1854
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101539490
    ... of culture. The Indians form plantations of the nopal (Opuntia cochinillefera), upon which the insect feeds and propagates. ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - The dispensatory of the United States of America 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Grigg & Elliot, 1845
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101539484
    ... of culture. The Indians form plantations of the nopal (Opuntia cochinillefera), upon which the insect feeds and propagates. ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - The dispensatory of the United States of America 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Grigg & Elliot, 1843
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101539482
    ... of culture. The Indians form plantations of the nopal {Opuntia cochinillefera), upon which the insect PART i. Coccus. ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - The dispensatory of the United States of America 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Grigg & Elliot, 1847
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101539485
    ... of culture. The Indians form plantations of the nopal (Opuntia cochinillefera), upon which the insect feeds and propagates. ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - The dispensatory of the United States of America 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1858
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101539491
    ... of culture. The Indians form plantations of the nopal (Opuntia cochinillifera), upon which the insect feeds and propa- ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - The dispensatory of the United States of America 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Grigg, Elliot & Co., 1849
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101539487
    ... of culture. The Indians form plantations of the nopal ( Opuntia cochinillefera), upon which the insect feeds and propagates. ...
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