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But the apothecary's trade then had its limitations, homeopathy being unknown, while calomel, castor oil and rhubarb were mainly in demand, as well as senna, manna and other bitter concoctions with which both young and old were freely dosed.
To the same author we are indebted for some notices respecting the countries which lay beyond the eastern limits of the Roman empire, and also for the first clear and undoubted notice of rhubarb, as an extensive article of commerce for medicinal purposes.
Rain, exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life. Every phenomenon has a natural cause. Learned when I served my time and worked the mail order line for Kellett's. Experienced hand. Every knot says a lot. Let me. In courtesy. I knelt once before today. Ah! Even their wax model Raymonde I visited daily to admire her cobweb hose and stick of rhubarb toe, as worn in Paris.
It is an apish work in such sort to juggle with Holy Scripture: it is no otherwise than if I should discourse of physic in this manner: the fever is a sickness, rhubarb is the physic. The fever signified! the sins rhubarb is Jesus Christ, &c. Even so and after the same manner are they deceived that say, Children ought to be baptized again, because they had not faith.
Peel the rhubarb stalks and cut them into small square pieces. Then weigh them, and to each pound allow three quarters of a pound of powdered loaf-sugar. Put the sugar and the rhubarb into a large, deep, white pan, in alternate layers, the top layer to be of sugar cover it, and let it stand all night.
If the pain is in the back part of the head, put a blister on the neck, by all means. When persons have a bad spell of rheumatism, they should always take medicine, and avoid eating meat for a few days. Equal parts of rhubarb and castile soap, made into pills, with a little water, is a valuable medicine for rheumatism, and suits aged persons; the pills should be taken at night on going to bed.
For example, all root crops might be grown on one side of the plot, all cabbage crops in the adjoining space, all tomato and eggplant crops in the center, all corn and tall things on the opposite side. Perennnial crops, as asparagus and rhubarb, and gardening structures, as hotbeds and frames, should be on the border, where they will not interfere with the plowing and tilling."
"Every evening he rode back to the fountain, and there he wearily told the nymph that he had not yet found the ogre. "She always told him to be brave, and continue the search. "At last came a day when there was a fearful battle in the woods!" Polly's eyes were bright, and she leaned forward in her excitement. Her rhubarb leaf parasol had wilted, and she cast it aside.
I hadn't the least idea of what ailed the old chap, but conveyed no hint of my darkness. I put on my very medical look and said: "Exactly so. Now you take these pills and you will find a wonderful difference in the morning." I had some rather fierce rhubarb pills; one was a dose but, recognising the necessity for eclat, I gave him two. He gladly gulped them down in water.
She's gone, pore soul. And now you young ladies must try some of my rhubarb wine." She rose briskly, and went to a cupboard. "We drank some of it at the funeral," she said. "And everyone liked it even Briggs. But I thought I'd save the rest for when you came. Miss Olga always likes my rhubarb wine." The rhubarb wine proved at least a welcome distraction, and under its genial influence Mrs.
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