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  1. ... and intensely bitter taste, not unlike that of quassia. It yields its virtues to water and alcohol. ... the medicine appears to be closely analogous to quassia, with which it is botanically allied. The dose ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - The triumph of Quassia 
    Publication: [London] : Pubd. June 10th, 1806 by H. Humphrey, [1806, printed 1851?]
    The triumph of Quassia ... tax affecting brewers and the alleged substitution of quassia for hops. Quassia is the wood, bark, or root of a ... a triumphal procession of an African woman symbolizing quassia being carried on a barrel, various political figures ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy : together with the natural, ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Thomas Dobson ..., William Fry, printer, 1814
    ... Toluifera. Cassia. Guilandina. Dictamnus. Haematoxylon. Swietenia. Guajacum. Ruta. Quassia. Ledum. Rhododendron Arbutus. Styrax. Copaifera. Ord. Digynia. Saponaria. ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy : together with the natural, ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Thomas Dobson and Son ..., William Fry, printer, 1818
    ... Toluifera. Cassia. Guliandina. Dictamnus. Haematoxylon. Swietenia. Guajacum. Ruta. Quassia. Ledum. Rhododendron Arbutus. Styrax. Copaifera. Ord. Digynia. Saponaria. ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy : together with the natural, ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Thomas Dobson ..., Fry and Kammerer, printers, 1810
    ... ursi, and Pyrola umbellata. 588 Materia Medica. Q. QUASSIA. Willd. g. 849. Decandria Monogynia.—Nat. ord. Gruhiales. QUASSIA EXCELS A. Sp. 3. Lignum. Ed. Quassia. Lignum, ...
  6. ... ordinary precur- sory signs. ASEPTON, Asapes. ASH, BITTER, Quassia. Ash Tree, Fraxinus excelsior—a. Mountain, Sorbus acuparia— ... gentiana? compositum. BITTERSWEET, Solanum dulcamara. BITTER WOOD TREE, Quassia. BITTOS. A disease, in which the chief symptom ...
  7. ... mild tonic, as elixir vitriol, or decoction of quassia, three times a day for two or three ... manner ; as de- coction of bark, columbo, gentian, quassia, &c. Also char- coal, finely powdered, may be ...
  8. ... spirit, but gives no tinge to aqueous liquors. Quassia Excelsa. Quassia. The wood, bark, and root. The quassia tree is a native of the West Indies, and of South America. Quassia derives its name from a negro named Quassi, ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - A handbook of therapeutics 
    Publication: New York : William Wood and Co., 1880
    ... of patients taking salicylates. 600 SALICINE—CALUMBA—GENTIAN—QUASSIA—CHAMOMILE. CALUMBA. Calumba is used as a tonic ... when a tonic and purga- tive are required. QUASSIA. Quassia is poisonous to some of the lower ...
  10. ... be denied nor explained ? <vH'A 28 J QUASSIA. L.E.D (Quassia Excelsa. Lignum.) Quassia. This wood owes all its properties to a ... and of a yellowish brown colour. (See Infusum Quassia.) It is said to owe its name to ...
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