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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Dictionary of medical terms 
    Publication: New York : William Wood and Company, 1899
    ... Mucronulé, -ée. Having mucronules. Mucuna. Mucuna. Mucuna pruriens. Mucuna pruriens ; Cowhage. Mucus. Mucus. Mudar. Mudar. Mudarine. Mudarin. Mue. (1) ...
  2. ... common cotton of commerce. Cotton-Plant. COWHAGE. 267 COWHAGE (Mucuna Pruriens). Part used—The hairs of the pods and ...
  3. ... greenish-white. Habitat.—West Indies. Fig. 170. Mucuna pruriens. Mucuna, Cowhage. Secondary List, IT. S. P. The hairs of the pods of Mucuna pruriens. The legume of the Mucuna pruriens is of ...
  4. ... by a hard short point; applied to leaves. MUCUNA PRURIENS. Common Cowhage, or Cow-itch; a leguminous plant, having its ...
  5. ... Lumbricoides, is the setae of the pods of Mucuna Pruriens, or cowhage.* Like tin, they are exhibited in sirup or ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Handbook of the diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases 
    Publication: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1895
    ... flea-bane, burdock, euphor- bia, manchineel of Florida, mucuna pruriens or cowhage, flax? bayberry (employed in making cheap " Bay rum "), ...
  7. ... three days, and again repeat after several days. Mucuna Pruriens, or cowhage, acts only as a me- chanical irritant; it ...
  8. ... prickle at the end of an obtuse leaf. MUCUNA PRURIENS. Common cowhage or cowitch; a leguminous plant, having its legumes ...
  9. ... but little seems, as yet, to be known. Cowhage—(Mucuna Pruriens).—Called also Cowitch. This plant is a native of warm climates, and grows plentifully in the West Indies. It is a sort of ... is the part used. The Cowhage Pods can generally be found in our drug ...
  10. ... effects of it upon the water. ANTHELMINTICS. 157 cowhage {Mucuna pruriens). This plant was long considered the Dolichos pruriens. ...
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