sweetning

Updated: January 11, 2026

An Operator of this Nature might act under me with the same Regard as a Surgeon to a Physician; the one might be employ'd in healing those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the Body, while the other is sweetning the Blood and rectifying the Constitution.

Joseph Addison - The Spectator, Volume 1: Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays