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  1. ... or two of strong coffee. Colchicum Autumnale. Meadow Saffron. The root. This plant grows wild in rich ... twenty-four hours, forms the vinegar of meadow saffron ; and the oxymel is made by adding two ...
  2. ... it differs only in wanting a drachm of saffron. The aromatic additions are thought to adapt it ... colour plasters, and has occasionally been substituted for saffron. It is said to be sometimes largely adulterated; ...
  3. 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
    ... pa- nacea Anwaldina is chiefly cinnabar, with some saffron and oyster shells. The cinnabaris cerulea of Wallerius, ... germanicum. See Enula. Aro'ma philosopho'rum. See Crocus. This term also implies a preparation of Paracelsus, ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of arts and sciences (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Isaac Peirce ..., 1815-1816
    ... sufficient to work it, and colour it with saffron; in winter use rusty bacon instead of butter. ... the finest emery, or rather with tbe finest crocus martis or colrofhar of vitriol, and common brandy, ...
  5. ... modify the colour of the milk by mixing saffron or madder with the food; the odour may ... on which they were supposed to rjperatc.—Again, Saffron was used in jaundice,—Lithospermum, or Grom- well, ...
  6. ... morning. To prepare the yellow lozenges, take of Saffron, half an ounce; of Water, one gallon ; boil ... is usually a mixture of essences coloured with Saffron; a little honey is sometimes added, the viscidity ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - A compend of pharmacy 
    Publication: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1895
    ... lemon-yellow, lustrous crystals, of the hexagonal system ; saffron-like and almost insuppressible odor; unpleasant, slightly sweetish, ... sugar, etc. Official Preparation.—Extractum Gossypii Radicis Fluidum. CROCUS, U. S.—Saffron.—The stigmas of Crocus sativus contain ...
  8. ... of a warm infusion. SAFFROX. THE STIGMAS OF CROCUS SATIVUS. Dose.—Of the powder, grs. x. to ... boiling water, two to four ounces. Therapeutic Action.—Saffron is diaphoretic, stimulant, emmenagogue, and antispasmodic. Its medical ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English : or, Medicine simplified 
    Publication: Buffalo, N.Y. : World's Dispensary Printing Office and Bindery, 1880
    ... concentrated principle—Asclepin one to three grains. 551. Saffron {Crocus Sativus). Golden Saffron. Dose —Of infusion (one drachm to a pint ... 460 Golden Medical Discovery, 316, 324,362 Golden Saffron,.....340 Golden-seal,.....359 Gold-thread, . . . . . 861 Gonorrhoea. .... ...
  10. ... soul of the lungs. A name given to saffron, on account of its use in asthmas. Anima ... in Digitalis purpurea. 7. Arrow-shaped; as in Crocus sativus. 8. Bifid, parted half way down in ...
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