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Hurlbut say many a time that he had to lay in an extra stock of valerian and assafaetida whenever there was a young minister round, for there's plenty of religious ravin', says he, that's nothin' but hysterics." "Well, and what do you propose to do about the Rev. Joseph Bellamy Stoker and his young proselyte, Miss Myrtle Hazard?" said Mr. Gridley, when Mrs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

Hurlbut say many a time that he had to lay in an extra stock of valerian and assafaetida whenever there was a young minister round, for there's plenty of religious ravin', says he, that's nothin' but hysterics." "Well, and what do you propose to do about the Rev. Joseph Bellamy Stoker and his young proselyte, Miss Myrtle Hazard?" said Mr. Gridley, when Mrs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Guardian Angel

It is a bust of AEsculapius, evidently of the latest London manufacture; and from the door behind it steams forth a mingled smell of musk and assafaetida and other drugs of potent perfume, as if an appropriate sacrifice were just laid upon the altar of the medical deity.
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Dr. Bullivant: (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
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