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  1. NLM Digital Collections - An historical essay on the dropsy 
    Publication: London : Printed for B. Law ... and G. Ray ..., 1781
    ... of it by taking a de- coction of butcher's broom, and purging two or three times with a ... of it by taking a de- coction of butcher's broom, and purging two or three times with a ...
  2. ... Or, half a pint of the decoction of butchers broom, intermixing purges twice or thrice a week. The ... 291, 300, 346 Burnt salt - 281, 300,341 Butcher's broom 189. 243 Butter 99, 114,115, 153, 320, ...
  3. ... Chicken broth, wherein are boiled the Roots of Butcher's- broom, Chervil, Polypody, the Leaves of Scolopendrium, Hart's Tongue, ... The Family Physician. 139 an ounce; roots of butchers broom, two ounces; grass- roots, three ounces; shavings of ...
  4. ... fields. Rus'cus A-cu-le-a'tus.* Butchers’ Broom, an evergreen shrub of the order Liliacece, a ...
  5. ... radices ape- rien'tes, were, of old, asparagus, butchers' broom, fennel, parsley, and smallage. Five Lesser Aperient Roots, ...
  6. ... 612 RANUNCULUS rien'tes, were, of old,—asparagus, butchers' broom, fennel, parsley, and smallage. Five Lesser Aperient Roots, ...
  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
    ... myrtacantha, myacantha, scopa regia, wild myrtle, knee holly, butcher's broom ; ruscus aculeatus Lin. Sp. PI. 1474, is a low ... leaves). See Cinara. SCO'PA RE'GIA. See Ruscus. SCOPULA, (a dim. of scopa, a broom). A ...
  8. ... name of a genus of plants. Ruscus Aculeatus. Butcher's broom. Knee-holly. Ruscus Hypoglos'sum. Uvularia hypoglossum. RUSH, SWEET. Acorus calamus; ... in the neck ofthe bladder. UVULA'RIA. The ruscus hypo- glossum, a plant formerly used in cases ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - A grammar of botany : containing an explanation of the system of Linnaeus, and the terms of ... 
    Publication: New-York : Published by James Eastburn and Co ..., Clayton & Kirkland, printers, 1818
    ... 932. Order 13. Syngenesia, anthers united. Ex. Ruscus, (butcher's broom.) 933. Order 14. Gynandria, stamina growing out of ... folium. A leaf ending in a point. See Ruscus aculeatus. Class xxii. Order 3. ; Acutangulus. Sharp-angled. < * ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities 
    Publication: New York : American Book Company, [1843]
    ... is unquestionably, according to the same authority, the Butcher’s Broom, or Alexandrean Laurel, i. e., Ruscus Hypoglossum.1 DAPHNEPHOR/IA (Aa opLa), a festival ...
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