rhubarb-root

Updated: May 24, 2025

We have privately climbed to the summit of the clothes-press, we have surreptitiously invaded the nurse's own private work-basket, lured by disappointing lumps of wax and fragments of rhubarb-root; but we did not find it. We believe in its existence none the less.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860