| 单词 | fever and ague root |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfever and ague root P2. fever and ague root: a North American plant used for the treatment of fevers, described as having yellow berries and elongated leaves (probably horse gentian Triosteum perfoliatum); cf. fever-root n. at Compounds 7. rare. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > names applied to various plants or parts boneworteOE springworteOE atterlothec1000 halswortc1000 bruisewortOE motherworta1200 panax?a1200 bloodworta1300 serpentinea1400 tutsana1400 wartworta1400 wormseeda1400 grace of God?c1400 nailworta1425 Gratia Dei?c1425 sanguinaryc1440 panacea1522 parthenium1548 woundwort1548 wart-weed1573 cardiaca1578 hermodactyl1578 panacea1590 holy seed1597 whitlow-grass1597 feverwort1611 fever and ague root1676 rattlesnake root1682 snake-root1712 cancer root1714 fever-root1739 strongback1739 rheumatism root1835 heal-all1853 wound-weed1857 1676 T. Glover Acct. Virginia in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 630 The English call it the Fever and Ague-root. 1943 S. E. Massengill Sketch Med. & Pharmacy xi. 162 Thomas Glover describes four other popular simples—dittany, turbith, mechoacon, and the fever and ague root. 1981 S. B. King Darien 9 Among the ‘cures’ tried by this Yankee victim of a Southern malady were sweet weed tea, pepper and water, fever and ague root, wild cherry tree bark in water, tartar, jallop, and sulphur and rum. < as lemmas |
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