aconite

• Some accounts say, that the aconite was produced from the foam of Cerberus, when dragged by Hercules from the infernal regions EXPLANATION The story of Arachne is most probably based upon the simple fact, that she was the most skilful artist of her time, at working in silk and wool. —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
• If a woman has taken a severe cold, then the aconite should be given, but under no other condition PHYSICIANS' TREATMENT.--Dr. —  Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
• In the different concoctions made are found aconite, acquiamonia, angelica root, arsenic, alum, benzine, belladonna, beet-root juice, bitter almond, coculus-indicus, sulphuric acid, prussic acid, wood alcohol, boot soles and tobacco stems. —  Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures
• There is aconite, the deadly poison with which Dr. Lamson removed his troublesome relatives. —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• I scarcely know what it is you want to hear What is poison Strychnine, opium, prussic acid, belladonna, aconite--oh, thousands of things How do they kill Well, strychnine gives awful pain and convulsions--makes the back into an arch; opium sends you to sleep; prussic acid stops the action of the heart; and so on What is that?" —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876

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