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  1. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities 
    Publication: New York : American Book Company, [1843]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/01140320R
    ... 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 ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1852-1854
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101507665X2
    ... used in visceral diseases. The other four were butcher's broom (Ruscus aculealus), celery or smallage (Apium graveolem), parsley (Petroselinum ... likewise a rough excrescence growing on the pivprin (Ruscus aculeatus). See Dios- corides, lib. i. cap. 156. ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803[-1804]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101527562X3
    ... in- digenous, namely, the aculeatus, Common Knee-holly, Butchers'- Broom, or Prickly Pettigree. It grows in Avoods, thickets, ... and June. This plant is much used by butchers, for brooms to sweep their blocks. Branches of it are ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - The poor man's physician, or the receipts of the famous John Moncrief of Tippermalloch : ... 
    Publication: Edinburgh : Printed for John Paton, 1716
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/2761887R
    ... For the Dropsy. Decoction of the Roots of Butchers-Broom, drunk the Space of a Month, with two ...
  5. 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
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/2566033RX1
    ... winian. BRU'NUS. See Erysipelas. BRU'SCUS. See Ruscus. BRU'TA. (Arabic). That virtue of the celestial ... reAvardof victors). Hippoglossum epiglos- sum, daphne, diglossu7n, epiglottis, ruscus latifolius, bonefacia, coracobotane gazar, uvularia; ruscus hippo- glossumlAn. ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - The natural history of Pliny (Volume 5) 
    Publication: London : Henry G. Bohn, MDCCCLV-MDCCCLVII
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/57011150RX5
    ... plant of kindred nature, the Ruscus aculeatus, or butcher's broom, are diuretic. 3- Or ■'ground olive." See B. ... seem to indicate a species of centaury. '"' The Ruscus hypoglossum of Linneeus, the Double tongue. 99 The ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Blanchard and Lea, 1858
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101675434
    ... plants of the natural order Liliacese.] [Ruscus aculeatus. Butcher’s broom. The root has been used as a diuretic ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - The domestic encyclopaedia, or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a .... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street ; Robert Carr, printer, 1804
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/2577027RX3
    ... in- digenous, namely, the aculeatus, Common Knee-holly, Butchers'- Broom, or Prickly Pettigree. It grows in woods, thickets, ... and June. This plant is much used by butchers, for brooms to sweep their blocks. Branches of it are ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - The American herbal, or materia medica : wherein the virtues of the mineral, vegetable, and ... 
    Publication: Walpole [N.H.] Printed by David Carlisle, for Thomas & Thomas, and the author, 1801
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/2573006R
    ... Smallage, *t. Afparagui, 3. Fennel, 4. Patfley, 5. Butcher'i Broom. II. THE FIVE EMOLLIENT HERBS. 1. Marfh Mallows, ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1846
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101507075X2
    ... account that Dioscorides has left us of the Ruscus. Avicenna is also in ihe same error, and ... appears that, not knowing what the carpesium and ruscus were, they ignorantly attributed the virtues ascribed by ...
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