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But now let us suppose we take one single drop of the Tincture of Camomile, and that the whole of this were to be carried through the common series of dilutions. A calculation nearly like the following was made by Dr. Panvini, and may be readily followed in its essential particulars by any one who chooses. For the first dilution it would take 100 drops of alcohol.
Sharpe bought the dying practice of an antediluvian who believed in camomile and castor-oil. Harrie mended a few stockings, made a few pies, and watched the sea. It was almost enough of itself to make one happy the sea as it tumbled about the shores of Lime.
Vetches, from being reputed a most hardy grain, have been embodied in the following adage: "A thetch will go through The bottom of an old shoe," Which reminds us of the proverbial saying: "Like a camomile bed, The more it is trodden The more it will spread." The common expression: "Worth a plum," Is generally said of a man who is accredited with large means, and another adage tells us that,
She's took camomile and orange-peel, and snake-root and boneset, and dash-root and dandelion and there hain't nothin' done her no good. She told me to-day she couldn't keep up no longer, and I've been a-tellin' Mis' Pennel and her grand'ther.
Beatrice is so strong and healthy, she never takes any medicine; but if I had had twenty girls, and they had been delicate, I should have given them all camomile tea. It strengthens the constitution beyond anything. Now, will you promise me to take camomile tea? 'Thank you: I'm not at all ill, said Caterina. 'I've always been pale and thin.
I'll intend on you." The father's sigh deepened to a moan. "If you want anything 'aticular, just call me; d'ye see, father?" And away went the boy like a gleam of light. Presently he came back, leaping like the dawn. He was carrying, insecurely, a jug of poppy-head and camomile, which had been prescribed as a lotion. "Poppy heads, father! Poppy-heads is good, I can tell ye."
He left the potion, and Cicely disposed of it by small instalments at the windows; and a laugh over the evident horror it excited in the master, did the captives at least as much good as the camomile, centaury, wormwood, and other ingredients of the bowl. Happily it was only two days later that Sir Walter announced that his custody of the Queen was over, and Sir Amias Paulett was come for her.
No rain had fallen for the last three or four days, and the weather was perfect for that time of the year: there was less dust than usual on the dark-green hedge-rows and on the wild camomile that starred the roadside, yet the grass was dry enough for the little children to roll on it, and there was no cloud but a long dash of light, downy ripple, high, high up in the far-off blue sky.
I have some camomile leaves, and I will make the infusion while you wait downstairs. 'You ought to be in bed yourself, Stradella said kindly, but at the same instant it occurred to him that Ortensia had perhaps taken a fever too. 'To-morrow I will try to procure from the Pope's physician some of that wonderful Peruvian bark that cures the fever, he added.
Twice has the iron entered my soul. Twice have the dastard, vaunting, venal Crew gone over it: once as they went forth, conquering and to conquer, with reason by their side, glittering like a falchion, trampling on prejudices and marching fearlessly on in the work of regeneration; once again when they returned with retrograde steps, like Cacus's oxen dragged backward by the heels, to the den of Legitimacy, 'rout on rout, confusion worse confounded, with places and pensions and the Quarterly Review dangling from their pockets, and shouting, 'Deliverance for mankind, for 'the worst, the second fall of man. Yet I have endured all this marching and countermarching of poets, philosophers, and politicians over my head as well as I could, like 'the camomile that thrives, the more 'tis trod upon. By Heavens, I think, I'll endure it no longer!
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