To reduce the size of the spleen, the Greek athletes used certain beverages, the composition of which was not generally known; the Romans had a similar belief and habit Pliny speaks of a plant called equisetum, a decoction of which taken for three days after a fast of twenty-four hours would effect absorption of the spleen. ❋ Unknown (1896)
And there began a growth of rushes and equisetum and potamogeton that ended only with the drying of the pond. ❋ Herbert George (2004)
Over the meadows spread the regular Chinese-pagodas of the equisetum, (horsetail or scouring-rush,) and the rich coarse vegetation of the veratrum, or American hellebore. ❋ Various (N/A)
Here for a moment it was lost in a damp hollow full of a high growth of mares-tail (_equisetum_), that curious whorled relic of ancient days; driven from that by a regular course of beating the ground, it led its pursuers upward among rough tumbled stones where the brambles tripped them, and here they lost it for a time. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
You know what lovely little fern or equisetum stalks of sapphire the filaments are; they beat me so, but they're coming nice. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
We halted to noon under the shade of some fine large cottonwoods, our animals luxuriating on rushes, (_equisetum hyemale_,) which, along this river, were remarkably abundant. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)
As this appeared to be the nearest point to the lake, where a suitable camp could be found, we directed our course to one of the groves, where we found a handsome encampment, with good grass and an abundance of rushes, (_equisetum hyemale_.) ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)
The road in the afternoon was over the upper prairies, several miles from the river, and we encamped at sunset on one of its small tributaries, where an abundance of prele (_equisetum_) afforded fine forage to our tired animals. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)
In the swamps and ditches of England there grows a plant called the horse-tail (equisetum), having a succulent, erect, jointed stem, with slender leaves, and a scaly catkin at the top. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
The Brora Coal, one of the most considerable Oolitic seams in Europe, seems to have been formed almost exclusively of an equisetum, -- _E. columnare_. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
These rocks are nearly three hundred feet high, and are of the same nature as those we passed yesterday, but more abundantly filled with organ remains, consisting of anomiae and entrochii. 0 the islands which we passed there is abundance of equisetum hyemale, called rushes by the settlers, by whom this plant is held in high estimation, on account of its affording winter food for their cattle. ❋ Unknown (1819)
The rushes, equisetum hyemale, were so thick and tall, that it was both painful and difficult to walk along, even at a very slow pace. ❋ Unknown (1819)
By the time I graduated from veterinary school, amoxicillin (an antibiotic) and prednisone (a steroid) felt as safe and comfortable to me as an old pair of slippers, while lobelia (Indian tobacco), equisetum (horsetail), or even St. John’s wort were cause for great suspicion. ❋ D.V.M. Donna Kelleher (2003)
822 (W. Lange), appear two papers 'On the Nature of Plant Constituents containing Silicon,' which contain the results of experimental investigations of equisetum species -- distinguished for their exceptionally high 'ash' with large proportion of silica -- to determine whether there are any grounds for assuming the existence of silicon-organic compounds in the plant, the analogues of carbon compounds. ❋ C. F. Cross (N/A)