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  1. NLM Digital Collections - A reference handbook of the medical sciences: embracing the entire range of scientific and ... 
    Publication: New York : Wood, 1885-1893
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/31830700RX5
    ... Congress of German Surgeons a 715 Plastic Surgery. Pleurisy. REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. method of obtaining ... means rare in which, a variable 717 Pleurisy. Pleurisy. REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. from the presence ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - The complete herbalist, or, The people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies : ... 
    Publication: Jersey City, N.J. : O.P. Brown, 1867
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/64210320R
    ... yielded. Take, for example, the Butterfly-weed, or Pleurisy-root (Asclepius Tube- rosa), which grows in the barren and ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - The family physician ; or, The reformed practice of medicine : on vegetable or botanical ... 
    Publication: New York : Published and for sale by the author, 1845
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101743940
    ... Wash- ington) attached, .... xxx FIGURES OF PLANTS. 1. Pleurisy-root, Asclepius Tuberosa, 642 2. Chamomile, Anthemis Nobilis, . ib. 4. ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Domestic medicine : a treatise on the practice of medicine, adapted to the reformed system, ... 
    Publication: Cincinnati : Sewell, 1859
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/64220540R
    ... Asolepias Tuberosa, ( Pleurisy-root). DIAPHORETICS. 407 ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA. Pleurisy-root, White-root, Swallowwort, dj-c. Description. � This species of asclepias has a large, tuberous, perennial root, which is branched, rough, and generally ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - A manual of organic materia medica : being a guide to materia medica of the vegetable and ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea, 1899
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101646245
    ... Constituents.—Crystalline glucoside possessing the taste ASCLEPIAS ... of Asclepius cornuti. Also two resins, tannin (?), mucilage, starch, etc. ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, National Library of Medicine .... 
    Publication: Washington : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service : G.P.O., 1959-1961
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/8209737X1
    ... Contents: v.l, Pt. 1. The footprint, of Asclepius. 1935. v.l, Pt. 2. Autonomic integration. 1936. ... Res. Laborat.) ■--- & ROGERSON, Harold. Chemical examination of the tuberous root of Ipomoea horsfalliae. London [1910] p.355- ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - The practice of medicine, according to the plan most approved by the reformed or botanic ... 
    Publication: Mt. Vernon [Ohio] : Published by the author, printed by E.J. Ellis, 1847
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101250104
    ... at •first somewhat like the root of the asclepius tuberosa, but af- terwards intensely bitter. Stem erect, ... this plant is biennial or perennial, creeping, and tuberous. The stem is annual, two or three feet ...
  8. 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
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/2566033RX1
    ... root is as large as a nutmeg, hard, tuberous, and -whitish. It groAvs in sandy and gravelly ... from the East Indies in irregular slices is tuberous, an inch or more thick, marked on the ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - A manual of organic materia medica : being a guide to materia medica of the vegetable and ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea Brothers, 1895
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101646240
    ... taste bitterish and somewhat acrid. When long kept, pleurisy root acquires a ... of Asclepius cornuti. Also two resins, tannin (?), mucilage, starch, etc. ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - King's American dispensatory 
    Publication: Cincinnati : Ohio Valley Co., 1898-[1900?]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101515929
    ... colds. ASCLEPIAS CORNUTI.-MILKWEED. The root of the Asclepius Cornuti, Decaisne (Asclepius syriuca, Linne). Nut. Ord.-Asclepiadeae. Common Names: Common ...
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