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‖ pulsatilla Bot., Pharm.|pʌlsəˈtɪlə|
Also anglicized 6 pulsatill, 7 -il.
[med.L., dim. of pulsāta beaten, driven about; according to Linnæus Philos. Botan. 166 ‘from the beating of the flower by the wind’: cf. the name anemone.
Cf. also Pena & Lobel Stirpium Adversaria Nova (1570) 114 Pulsatilla, an Sylvestris Anemone. Huius comosi et tremuli seminum pappi quia huc atque illuc vel levissimo quoque flatu pultarentur, Pulsatillam barbari vocitarunt, Anemonemque.]
The Pasque-flower, a species of Anemone (A. Pulsatilla); in Tournefort, c 1700, a generic name; now in Bot. the name of a subgenus including this (then called P. vulgaris) and other species; also, in pharmacy, the extract or tincture of this plant.
[1578Lyte Dodoens iii. lxxii. 420 Passe flower is called in Latine Pulsatilla.] 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxiii. 309 In English Pasque flower..and after the Latin name Pulsatill. [1706Phillips, Pulsatilla, a Plant call'd Pasque-Flower, the distilled Water of which is excellent for cleansing and curing Wounds.] 1876tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. VI. 727 Bednar [has recommended] for some cases [of whooping-cough] the extract of pulsatilla. 1890Daily News 7 Jan. 6/2 Take at the same time three drops of tincture of pulsatilla every half hour until relief is obtained. 1890Billings Nat. Med. Dict., Pulsatilla, the herb of Anemone Pulsatilla and A. pratensis, and of A. patens, var. Nuttalliana, collected soon after flowering..; diaphoretic and emmenagogue. |