Back to Eden and found a listing for a root called pleurisy root. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference
This flower has a variety of names: it is called pleurisy root, and wind root, and orange root. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
It is often the foundation of a host of other diseases, such as pleurisy, liver complaints, fevers, asthmas, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference
When it came time for Tino to spell 'pleurisy' the crowd of about 50 seventh graders went bonkers because he was correct. From Wordnik.com. [Cincinnati Local News Headlines | WCPO.com] Reference
There are two forms of pleurisy, acute and chronic. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
In the treatment of pleurisy, this tincture is invaluable. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
This "schemer," I learned, had been a great sufferer from pleurisy at. From Wordnik.com. [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference
A man who had pleurisy was told by his doctor to apply a plaster to his chest. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Sero-fibrinous inflammations, such as occur in pleurisy and peritonitis, are common. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
In pleurisy the cough may be short and painful, and in broken wind, deep and suppressed. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
KNOX: Her doctor diagnosed pleurisy, inflammation of the chest lining, which isn't serious. From Wordnik.com. [With Birth Control Pills, New Isn't Always Better] Reference
They act as a demulcent in catarrh and pleurisy, being also a favourite food of Goldfinches. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
No medicine is usually needed, except a tea made from pleurisy root, to make the child sweat. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
I've heard of an elk's tooth for pleurisy and a rabbit's foot for evil spirits; but a pin like that?. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
Severe vomiting and diarrhea occasionally aggravate the case, and pleurisy and consumption may occur. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
The early symptoms of acute pleurisy are chills, rise in body temperature, pain and abdominal breathing. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
At the end of four weeks pleurisy, with effusion, developed on the right side; the chest was aspirated and. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Medical aid was sent for, and he was pronounced to be suffering from pleurisy and inflammation of the lungs. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
'Miss Dora's sick with pleurisy, she catched her death of cold yesterday, fishin' her puppy out of the river. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
If the fullers were to supply tunics to the indigent at the approach of winter, none would be exposed to pleurisy. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
There was purulent pleurisy with a considerable pocket of pus, and purulent false membranes on the walls of the pleura. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
William Henry Harrison's death was caused by pleurisy, the result of a cold, which he caught on the day of his inauguration. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
In another passage in the same work the symptoms of pleurisy are described and 'a creak like that of leather may be heard '. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
= -- These usually cause hæmorrhage, and are frequently followed by pleurisy, either dry or with effusion, and by pneumonia. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
Chronic Coughs are associated with, and are a result of sore throat, lung fever, pleurisy, bronchitis, catarrh and tuberculosis. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
The absence of fever in rheumatism of the chest will tend to separate it from pleurisy, in which there is, moreover, often cough. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
Thin serous membrane in mammals that envelops each lung and folds back to make a lining for the chest cavity. pleuritic (pleurisy). From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
It is to be inferred, as there were adhesions, that there had been pleurisy and deposit of lymph and serum, as in case 1, and that. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
The same causes which produce inflammation of the lungs, of the bronchia, and of the other respiratory organs, produce also pleurisy. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
The air was warm and damp, as if laden with pleurisy and ague; the ground soft and oozy, seemed a sure thing for rheumatism and influenza. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
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