Aretæus recommends moderate venæsection to be repeated, if the patient is plethoric, purging with black hellebore, and in some cases emetics; nourishing diet.
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Hellebore
//ˈhɛlɪbɔːɹ//
Synonyms for "hellebore" (3 found)
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41 translations across 31 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἑλλέβορος noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Arabic
1 entries- خَرْبَق noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Aramaic
1 entries- ܚܘܪܒܟܢܐ noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Armenian
2 entries- եղեբորոս noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
- ղանձլամեր noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Basque
1 entries- otsababa noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Bulgarian
1 entries- кукуряк noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Catalan
1 entries- el·lèbor noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 嚏根草 noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
- 鐵筷子 /铁筷子 noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
- 鹿食草 noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Czech
1 entries- čemeřice noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Dutch
1 entries- nieskruid noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Erzya
1 entries- теште noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Esperanto
1 entries- heleboro noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Finnish
1 entries- jouluruusu noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
French
2 entries- ellébore noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
- hellébore noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
German
3 entries- Christrose noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
- Nieswurz noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
- Schneerose noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Greek
1 entries- ελλέβορος noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Hungarian
1 entries- hunyor noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Ido
1 entries- heleboro noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Irish
1 entries- eileabar noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Italian
1 entries- elleboro noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Kazakh
1 entries- аязшөп noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بوینوز اوتی noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Polish
1 entries- ciemiernik noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Portuguese
1 entries- heléboro noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Romanian
3 entries- cucurig noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
- elebor noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
- spânz noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Romansch
1 entries- starnidella noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Russian
1 entries- чемери́ца noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Spanish
1 entries- eléboro noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Swedish
1 entries- julros noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Turkish
2 entries- marulcuk noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
- çöpleme noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Welsh
2 entries- crafanc-yr-arth noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
- pelydr noun (Any species of genus Helleborus)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Deadly nightshade, henbane, hellebore and mandrakes were of evil reputation[.]
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1998, Plinio Prioreschi, A History of Medicine, Volume III: Roman Medicine, page 122, Then the physician would use the king of remedies, the powerful one, hellebore: […] We suspect that after a sufficient number of administrations of hellebore the patient, if he had not done so before, would declare himself cured.
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It's Virgil who sends me to the hellebores. He mentions them as a component of an ointment to be applied to sheep suffering from skin diseases. The ointment comprises “olive oil lees mixed with silver slag, sulphur, pitch from Mount Ida, wax rich in oil, sea-squill, as well, and strong hellebore and black bitumen.”
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