| 单词 | euphorbium |
| 例句 | In former times euphorbium was valued in medicine for its drastic, purgative and emetic properties. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Take of Spanish flies 1 oz., gum euphorbium 3 drachms, tartar emetic 1 oz., rosin 3 oz.; mix and pulverize, and then mix them with a half lb. of lard. The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses Another he had all full of euphorbium, very finely pulverized. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 The negroes were busy poisoning arrows with the juice of the euphorbium—a piece of work deemed a great affair among these savage tribes, and carried on with a sort of ceremonial solemnity. Five Weeks in a Balloon A better kind of material, it appears, was subsequently found in the down surrounding the seed-vessels of a plant vulgarly called euphorbium, and at that time botanically termed milk-weed. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 |
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