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Nux vomica   Listen
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Nux vomica  n.  The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons.





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"Nux vomica" Quotes from Famous Books



... NUX VOMICA (Strychnos Nux Vomica), or Dog Button. This is a powerful tonic. It increases innervation and is particularly valuable in cases marked by feeble circulation and general impairment of muscular power. In overdoses it is poisonous, and hence must be employed with much caution. ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... and the professional classes to all great innovations. "Truly (says Dr. Stille in his Materia Medica) nearly every medicine has become a popular remedy before being adopted or even tried by physicians," and the famous author Dr. Pereira declares that "nux vomica is one of the few remedies the discovery of which is not the effect ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 - Volume 1, Number 11 • Various


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