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Definition of Poppyheads
1. poppyhead [n] - See also: poppyhead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poppyheads
Literary usage of Poppyheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1856)
"The chancel, formed out of the eastern bay of the nave, was arranged stall-wise,
with a projecting reading desk, distinguished by poppyheads carved with ..."
2. The Century Book of Facts: A Handbook of Ready Reference, Embracing History edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff (1906)
"(d) Dose. 1 ounce to 2 ounces after each action of the bowels. (c) Used in diarrhœa
and dysentery. Decoction of poppyheads. (a) Boil five ounces of bruised ..."
3. The Century Book of Facts: A Handbook of Ready Reference, Embracing History edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff (1906)
"Astringent and tonic. Used in diarrhoea and dysentery. Dose. 1 ounce to 2 ounces
after each action of the bowels. Decoction of poppyheads. ..."
4. The Century Book of Facts: A Handbook of Ready Reference, Embracing History edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff (1905)
"(c) Used in diarrhoea and dysentery. (a) Dose. 1 ounce to 2 ounces after each
action of the bowels. Decoction of poppyheads. (а) Boil five ounces of bruised ..."
5. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1878)
"... effects of two poppyheads in milk, in a child aged six mouths; 153, Williams,
Lancet, 1828, 2, 764, effects of a large dose, in a woman aged forty; 154, ..."
6. Minor surgical gynecology by Paul Fortunatus Mundé (1885)
"Or the infusion or decoction of poppyheads may be used. Or one of the bromides (of
potash, sodium, ammonium) may be dissolved in water in the proportion of ..."
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