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hellebore
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synonyms: christmas rose, helleborus niger, helleborus orientalis, helleborus officinalis ???
tags: [Rx] [botany] [rare]
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Definition:a plant that was used by the ancients to cure insanity
photo: By Dominicus Johannes Bergsma - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
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Uses:
CEL. I was the cause of the portrait being lost; I let it fall when swooning, and when you (to Sganarelle) kindly carried me into the house.
MAID. You see that without my help you had still been at a loss, and that you had some need of hellebore.
Molière. Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband
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Going along the narrow path to a little uncut meadow covered on one side with thick clumps of brilliant heart's-ease among which stood up here and there tall, dark green tufts of hellebore, Levin settled his guests in the dense, cool shade of the young aspens on a bench and some stumps purposely put there for visitors to the bee house who might be afraid of the bees, and he went off himself to the hut to get bread, cucumbers, and fresh honey, to regale them with.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
In referencing these two specific plants in this way, was Tolstoy saying everything is great with just a little cray-cray mixed in?
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Ambroise Paré, on where mucus comes from:
Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.570
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