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white hellebore
[ hwahyt hel-uh-bawr, wahyt ]
noun
- a false hellebore, Veratrum album, with clusters of white flowers, native to Europe and western Asia: now rarely used in medicine, its alkaloids were once used in a number of treatments, as for high blood pressure, but accidental poisoning is due mostly to the plant’s resemblance to an ingestible European gentian.
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Example Sentences
Vomits of white hellebore or antimony, and purges of black hellebore or aloes, are prescribed.
Dr. Handel recommends wash22ing the eyes, when disposed to blindness, with an infusion of the root of white hellebore.
For instance, they used white hellebore to cure their wounds, and John Josselyn tells us exactly how.
Take the brain—we have a disease, and we treat it with white hellebore.
If this does not prove efficacious, dust the under side of the leaves with white hellebore in a powder gun.
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