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  1. NLM Digital Collections - The student's medical dictionary : including all the words and phrases generally used in ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston, 1896
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/62710570R
    ... hage]. The external hairs of the pod of Mucuna pruriens, used in medicine as a me- chanic vermifuge. Cowhage, Cowitch [kow' -aj, kow' -ich). See Mucuna and ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Health at home, or, Hall's family doctor : showing how to invigorate and preserve health, ... 
    Publication: Hartford, Conn. : Betts, 1874
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63580050R
    ... 693, 699, 703 ; surfaces susceptible to disease, 709. Mucuna [= bristles from pods of cowhage, called Mtcuni (or Dotichos,or Styzolobium)pruriens\, Use of, 772. Mud removed, 157, 159 ; used, ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - A conspectus of the medical sciences : comprising manuals of anatomy, physiology, chemistry, .... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea, 1874
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63420330R
    ... decoction (3*j-Oj). Dose, f3ij-iv. Mucuna. Cowhage. The hairs of the / shaped pods of the Mucuna pruriens, of the East and AYest Indies. Brown, bristle- ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - The American eclectic materia medica : containing one hundred and twenty-five illustrations ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : H. Hollembaek, [1865]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/64220250R
    ... authors notice this article under the name of Mucuna Pruriens, with the common name of cowhage. When the pods are ripe, those who collect ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - A text-book of materia medica : characteristic, analytical, and comparative 
    Publication: Chicago : Gross & Delbridge, 1887
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101590213
    ... and better from pressure and bending double. DOLICHOS. (mucuna PRURIENS.) Natural order.— Leguminosae. Common names.—Cowhage. Cow-itch. General Analysis.—Acts upon the liver, ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - A text-book of materia medica : characteristic, analytical, and comparative 
    Publication: Chicago : Gross & Delbridge, 1885
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101590211
    ... and better from pressure and bending double. DOLICHOS. (mucuna pruriens.) Natural order.— Leguminosae. Common names. — Cowhage. Cow-itch. General Analysis.—Acts upon the liver, ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Reference-book of practical therapeutics (Volume 1) 
    Publication: New York : Appleton, 1896-97
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63730290RX1
    ... Exer- cise, page 413. MUCILAGES.—See Demulcents. MUCUNA, cowhage, consisting of the pod- hairs of Mucuna pruriens, was formerly offi- cial and was used as ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1846
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101507075X2
    ... narrower, terete, and keeled in the valves. Description.—Cowhage or Cow-itch (siliqua hirsuta) is the legume of the Mucuna pruriens (legumen mucunce, stizolobii vel dolichos prurientis). It is ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Syllabus of the course of lectures on materia medica and pharmacy : delivered in the ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Printed by Lydia R. Bailey, 1842
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61840990R
    ... drops for a child, repeated morning and evening. COWHAGE.—MUCUNA. 17. & Product of Mucuna pruriens—z. climbing West India plant. Shape and size ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Syllabus of the course of lectures on materia medica and pharmacy : delivered in the ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Printed by Lydia R. Bailey, 1844
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61841000R
    ... drops for a child, repeated morning and evening. COWHAGE.—MUCUNA. U.S. Product of Mucuna pruriens—a climbing West India plant. Shape and size ...
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