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Saturday the 30th of August 2003 special trains are departuring from Aalborg,? rhus, Vejle, Fredericia and Odense.
Boing Boing: August 24, 2003 - August 30, 2003 Archives 2003
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Borana: daboobes, adesa Digo: mgwanyahi, mbwananyahi English: KwaZulu Natal rhus Gabra: dabobbessa
Chapter 7 1999
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The secret of producing in China and Japan lacquer which cannot be imitated in other countries lies in the _rhus vernificifera_ which flourishes in those localities.
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Mere proximity to these plants will, in some individuals, provoke cutaneous disturbance (_rhus poisoning_, _ivy poisoning_), although they may be handled by others with impunity.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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All inflammatory conditions of the skin due to contact with deleterious substances such as caustic, chemical irritants, iodoform, etc., are included under this head, but the most common causes are the rhus plants -- _poison ivy_ (or _poison oak_) and _poison sumach_ (_poison dogwood_).
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Rounded or irregularly-shaped, pea to egg-sized epidermic elevations, with fluid contents; in short, they are essentially the same as vesicles and pustules except as to size; as, for example, the blebs of pemphigus, rhus poisoning, and syphilis.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Contact with the rhus plants, while producing a peculiar dermatitis, usually running an acute course terminating in recovery, may, in those predisposed, provoke a veritable and persistent eczema.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Autumn was just beginning to paint the forest, and already some touches from his glowing palette appeared among the leaves of the sassafras laurel, the sumach (_rhus_), the persimmon (_diospyros_), the nymph-named tupelo, and those other species of the American _sylva_ that love to array themselves so gorgeously before parting with their deciduous foliage.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850
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Now famous for two things, _picnics_ and _poison ivy, rhus toxicodendron, _ -- many persons having suffered for their temerity in landing upon it and making it the scene of their rural festivities.
Canadian Crusoes Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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I observed that, as before, in smoking the pipe they did not make use of tobacco, but the bark of cornus sanguinea, or red dog wood, mixed with the leaves of rhus glabrum, or smooth sumach.
Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 1819
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