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... known to stay the bleeding of the nose , when all other remedies had failed ; and adds , that fourteen or fifteen of the seeds ground into powder , and taken daily , will cure the swelling in the neck known by the name of goître ...
... known to stay the bleeding of the nose , when all other remedies had failed ; and adds , that fourteen or fifteen of the seeds ground into powder , and taken daily , will cure the swelling in the neck known by the name of goître ...
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... known in this country , and much employed for perfuming snuff . But the interesting circumstance in the history of this substance is , that , though discovered first in a bean , the pro- duce of a warm climate , it has since been found ...
... known in this country , and much employed for perfuming snuff . But the interesting circumstance in the history of this substance is , that , though discovered first in a bean , the pro- duce of a warm climate , it has since been found ...
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... despatching persons capitally convicted at Athens , namely , by a narcotic poison ; but neither Xenophon nor Plutarch tells us the species of poison . The poisons of this class known to the ancients , were aconite , white POISONINGS II.
... despatching persons capitally convicted at Athens , namely , by a narcotic poison ; but neither Xenophon nor Plutarch tells us the species of poison . The poisons of this class known to the ancients , were aconite , white POISONINGS II.
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John Timbs. class known to the ancients , were aconite , white poppy , hyoscyamus , and hemlock . The black poppy might be the Theban drug . The hyoscyarnus was used at Constantinople , and was very likely the Nepenthe spoken of by Homer ...
John Timbs. class known to the ancients , were aconite , white poppy , hyoscyamus , and hemlock . The black poppy might be the Theban drug . The hyoscyarnus was used at Constantinople , and was very likely the Nepenthe spoken of by Homer ...
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... known of chemistry , in order to carry out their infamous designs . Poisoned rings , made principally for intending suicides , were once plentiful , and one was used by Hannibal when he killed him- self . The poison was usually ...
... known of chemistry , in order to carry out their infamous designs . Poisoned rings , made principally for intending suicides , were once plentiful , and one was used by Hannibal when he killed him- self . The poison was usually ...
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Page 100 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 88 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions ? who hath babbling ? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 96 - Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and suchlike passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Page 156 - He sang of God — the mighty source Of all things — the stupendous force On which all strength depends; From Whose right arm, beneath Whose eyes, All period, power, and enterprise Commences, reigns, and ends.
Page 135 - O, mickle is the powerful grace, that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities : For naught so vile that on the earth doth live. But to the earth some special good doth give ; Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.
Page 73 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 74 - As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood, And ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse far back in some confused dream To states of mystical similitude ; If one but speaks or hems or stirs his chair, Ever the wonder waxeth more and more, So that we say, ' All this hath been before, All this hath been, I know not when or where.
Page 42 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Page 75 - ... sufferings that scarcely permitted human fortitude to let in a new visitor of affliction. The object of my present reply is to state the case just as it is. First, that for...
Page 213 - That he is the true possessor of a thing, who enjoys it, and not he that owns it without the enjoyment of it, to convince myself that I have a property in the gay part of all the gilt chariots that I meet, which I regard as amusements...