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Aconite   Listen
noun
Aconite  n.  
1.
(Bot.) The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous.
2.
An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.
Winter aconite, a plant (Eranthis hyemalis) allied to the aconites.





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"Aconite" Quotes from Famous Books



... aconite every three hours to regulate the pulse, and if the skin be pale and circulation feeble, with tardy eruption, administer one to ten drops of tincture of belladonna, according to the age of the patient. At the end of third week, if eyes ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols
... remark to make about these specimen drops of philosophy. Do not fancy I am libelling it, if I say it is like hemlock, aconite, or other deadly poison. Those too, though they have death in them, will not kill if a man scrapes off the tiniest particle with the edge of his nail and tastes it; if they are not taken in the right quantity, the ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata
... support the divine power which heals. Adoringly I discerned the Principle of his holy heroism and Christian example on the cross, when he refused to drink the "vinegar and gall," a preparation of poppy, or aconite, to allay ...
— Retrospection and Introspection • Mary Baker Eddy
... Aconite, wolf's-bane Purple, poison Dry rocky places; Pennsylvania. Agrimony Soft yellow Open woods; New Jersey. Archangelica White Dry open woods; Middle States. Beach-pea Purple, large Sea-coast; New Jersey. Black snakeroot White racemes ...
— Harper's Young People, July 13, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... Ellen, in fear of his sanity. She felt his temples and his wrists and his limp little body. Was he going to be sick now, just as his father and She were coming home?—now, of all times! Which would be better to give him, quinine, or aconite and belladonna? ...
— The Very Small Person • Annie Hamilton Donnell


Words linked to "Aconite" :   Aconitum lycoctonum, Aconitum napellus, wolfbane, Aconitum, genus Aconitum, helmetflower


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