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Raspberries or strawberries eaten plentifully have been found to dissolve these concretions, and contribute to the preservation of the teeth and gums. Tooth powders and tinctures also have their use. A very convenient powder may be made of charcoal pounded in a mortar, and sifted fine.
Good-day, Portugais." "Good-day, my son," said the priest, and raised his fingers in benediction, as Jo turned and quickly retraced his steps. "Why did you ask him if he had given the poor man any herbs or tinctures, Marcel?" said the priest. "Because those quack tinctures have whiskey in them." "What do you mean?" "Whiskey in any form would be bad for him," the surgeon answered evasively.
An examination held at Carlton into the contents of the two cases had revealed a sad state of affairs. Frost had smashed many bottles; powders badly folded up had fetched way in a deplorable manner; tinctures had proved their capability for the work they had to perform by tincturing every thing that came within their reach; hopeless confusion reigned in the department of pills.
She had a strong taste for empirical medicine and for alchemy, and was always compounding elixirs, tinctures and balms, some of which she regarded as valuable secrets. So it was that charlatans, trading on her weakness, made her consume, amid drugs and furnaces, a talent and a spirit which might have distinguished her in the highest societies.
It was in the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey that the adept Kelly, companion of Dr. Dee, discovered, in the reign of Elizabeth, the famous caskets of St. Dunstan, containing the two tinctures...." So he ran on, enumerating the odd charms of his residence, charms which for my part I did not find appealing. Finally "We cannot presume further upon your kindness," said Nayland Smith, standing up.
The Doctor knew a good many things besides how to drop tinctures and shake out powders. Thus, he knew a horse, and, what is harder to understand, a horse-dealer, and was a match for him. He knew what a nervous woman is, and how to manage her.
From the time the sick man had been brought into the house, the beggar had worked with him, giving him tinctures which he boiled with sweetmeat called the Flower of Bambaba, while Cumner's Son rubbed an ointment into his body.
They had prescribed the horrid potions of the age: tinctures of earth-worms; confections of spiders and wood-lice and viper's flesh; broth of human skulls, oil, wine, ants' eggs, and crabs' claws; the bufo preparatus, which was a live toad roasted in a pot and ground to a powder; and innumerable plaisters and electuaries.
It was in the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey that the adept Kelly, companion of Dr. Dee, discovered, in the reign of Elizabeth, the famous caskets of St. Dunstan, containing the two tinctures..." So he ran on, enumerating the odd charms of his residence, charms which for my part I did not find appealing. Finally: "We cannot presume further upon your kindness," said Nayland Smith, standing up.
He compounded pills, a variety of which were always kept prepared for use, and he made the different tinctures and ointments.
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