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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Studies of nature (Volume 3) 
    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
    ... on which had grown a sprig of the mistletoe. At sight of this little shrub, which had almost proved so fatal to me, I shuddered with horror; but I was not aware that we arc fre- ARCADIA. quently indebted for safety to that which menaced us with de- struction, ...
  2. ... are obtained by administering the elixir of the mistletoe during the last four months of preg- 1366 DISEASE GERMS. nancy, equal to the wine of the aleteris farinosa. Sure to relieve pregnancy and parturition of many complications, and insure ease and safety; and still more, when its action in labor ...
  3. ... Oct. 10, 1867, p. 212.) W. VISCUM ALBUM. Mistletoe. A European evergreen parasitic shrub, growing on various ... In the religious rites of the Druids the mistletoe of the oak was employed, and 1720 Whiting.— ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Lexicon medicum, or, Medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, .... 
    Publication: New York : E. Bliss & E. White, How, Spaulding & Dwight, F. & R. Lockwood, and J.V. Seaman, 1822
    ... animal machine in preserving life. Vi'scum album. Mistletoe. This singu- lar parasitical plai*|i most commonly ... the branches of trees where they vegetate. The mistletoe of the oak has, from the times of ...
  5. ... alkaloids are obtained from Vera- trum viride, from mistletoe, and from certain ... advantage is their safety. As much as ten times the effective dose ...
  6. ... States, etc. Phoraden'dron Fla-ves'9ens.* American Mistletoe, a parasitic shrub, a native of the Middle ... coid. [Lat. Viscoi'des; from vis'cum, the “ mistletoe,” and the Gr. eldog, a “ form” or “resemblance.”] ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - The dispensatory of the United States of America 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1851
    ... puropean evergreen parasitic shrub, growing on VISCUM ALBUM. Mistletoe. A aad other fruit trees, and forming a ... from two to five feet in diamete tjie mistletoe of the oak was employed, and stition. In ...
  8. ... known by a “ Dissertation on the con- secrated Mistletoe of the Druids ; and by “ Tra- vels through ... he wandered from place to place, as his safety required. lie finally went to England, where lie ...
  9. ... Coal oil........................ Petroselinum, Parsley.................... Phellandrium, Water hemlock......... Phoradendron, Mistletoe.................. Phosphorus, Phosphorus.................. Physostigma venenosum, Calabar bean. ... Phytolacca decandra, ...
  10. ... convallaria and lavender, Spanish wine, cin- namon, nutmeg, mistletoe, peony and dittany roots, long pepper, cubebs, and ... anti-epileptic ; and composed of Male pxony root, Mistletoe, Icory shavings, Horn of the hoof of the ...
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