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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
    ... agnostic criterion of great value. Frederick C. Shattuck. PLEURISY ROOT {Asclepius, U. S. Ph. ; Butterfly Weed). The root of Asclepias ... The danger of emphysema is removed by the safety-valve of the oesophagus. I ... In hepatization and pleurisy the pain exhausts and adds to the dyspnoea, ...
  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 - 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 ...
  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 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 ...
  8. 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 ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Series 4, ... 
    Publication: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1936-1948
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/8104688X7
    ... Introduction, texts and translation. 1924. Corpus Hermeticum. Libellus. Asclepius. Stobaei Hermetica. Fragmcnta. Vol. 2. Notes on the ... Hermeticum. 1925. Vol. 3. Notes on the Latin Asclepius and the Hermetic excerpts of Stobaeus. 1920. Vol. ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - A treatise on materia medica, pharmacology, and therapeutics (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : F.A. Davis, 1889-91
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63811080RX2
    ... THERAPEUTIC AGENTS, OR DRUGS. not be confounded with Asclepius incarnata, which is sometimes called white Indian hemp, ... Veratrine ointment is useful in pleurodynia or chronic pleurisy, alopecia circumscripta, chloasma, and pediculosis. For ordinary use ...