Note 397 — PHARMACOLOGIA. (continued 2)
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Horse-radish; horse-mint; bull-rush; &c. These epithets are Grecisms; ιππος and βους, i. e. horse and bull, when prefixed to any word, signified no more than great; thus the great Dock, Hippo-lapathum, and the horse of Alexander from the size of his head was named Bucephalus.