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  1. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of medical terminology, dental surgery, and the collateral sciences 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1855
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101501841
    ... the order Banunculacea;. Clematis Daphnoi'des. The less periwinkle. Clematis Passiflo'ea. The passion flower. Clematis Rec' ... of the cellular tissue which surrounds the caecum. PERIWINKLE. A flowering plant of the genus Vinca. PERIZO' ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of popular medicine and hygiene : American domestic medicine and household ... 
    Publication: Augusta, Me. : True, [1882?]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63610060R
    ... sickness and purging; so also will mussels and periwinkles sometimes; in some people oysters have a similar ... and then again temporarily appear ; eating mussels or periwinkles, or some kinds of oysters, will sometimes produce ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - A treatise on food and diet : with observations on the dietetical regimen suited for ... 
    Publication: New York : Fowlers & Wells, 1851
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101587792
    ... bivalves and univalves—The Oyster—Mussel— Cockles—Scallops—Periwinkles—Limpets—Whelks—Snails - - - - 139—142 Diseased and Decayed ... and the Scallop: among univalves, we have the Periwinkle, the Limpet, and the Whelk. To these, as ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Family physician : or homoeopathic practice of medicine, adapted to domestic and professional ... 
    Publication: New York : Radde, 1860
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/64331080R
    ... bac. or Zinc. —:---Lids burning in. Colocy. or Vinca. Min. ----- Contracted. Tabac. or Tart. Anti. ----- Excrescenses on. ... Plumb. Acet. Puis. Sol. Nig. Spong. Stramo. Sulp. Vinca. Min. or Zinc ------ Blue. Lye Merc. Nux M. ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - Studies of nature (Volume 1) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Printed by Abraham Small, for Birch & Small, M. Carey, C. & A. Conrad & Co., W. W. Woodward, Jacob Johnson, and Kimber and COnrad, in Philadelphia ; Thomas and Andrews, Boston ; Campbell and Mitchell, New-York ; and Backus and Whiting, Albany, 1808
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0220231X1
    ... saw there, in general, but two sorts of periwinkles, called by the country people vignots; the one ... I am inclined to believe, that the black periwinkle adheres in preference to the black rock; for ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Medical lexicon : a dictionary of medical science : containing a concise account of the ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1846
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101515244
    ... cellular substance surrounding the cecum. See Tvphlo-enteritis. PERIWINKLE, LESSER, Vinca minor. PERIZO'MA, from mqttcovvvpi, (mqt, and ta) ... that is less pure. PERU, see Lima. PERVENCHE, Vinca minor. PERVER'SION, from per, and vertere, 'to ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - The address in obstetrics : delivered before the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania,... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Collins, printer, 1874
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101160983
    ... liquor of common 34 THE ADDRESS IN OBSTETRICS. periwinkle, the ext. vincae major liquidum, in drachm doses ... He has found next to the liquor of periwinkle as above, the ethereal peracetate of iron, ergot, ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of medical science : containing a concise account of the various subjects and ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1844
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101515227
    ... that is less pure. PERU. See Lima. PERVENCHE, Vinca minor. PERVER'SION, from per, and vertere, 'to ... VINAIGRE DE BOIS, Pyroligneous acid. VINAIGRES MEDIC1NAUX, Acetica. VINCA MINOR, Vinca pervin'ca, Clem'atis daphno'i' ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - The footprints of the Creator, or, The Asterolepis of Stromness 
    Publication: New York : Hurst, [1850?]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0121324
    ... cut clover and rye-grass, and have gathered periwinkles where I now see snails. But it is ... that became the rye-grass, or that the periwinkles freshened into snails. The kelp-weed and periwinkles ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - The natural history of Pliny (Volume 4) 
    Publication: London : Henry G. Bohn, MDCCCLV-MDCCCLVII
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/57011150RX4
    ... pothos. Two varieties of the orsinum. The vincaper- vinca or chamaedaphne—a plant which is an ever- ... theVinca major and minor of modern botany, our periwinkle. Fee, however, is inclined to identify it with ...
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