"Medicinally" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... being no remarks required concerning the water employed, in addition to what has been said in the previous chapter, a few words are in place on the subject of chemicals. As has been previously stated (page 13) these are added: a) to be absorbed, and thus act medicinally on the patient; b) to act on the skin; c) through chemical affinity to facilitate the elimination from the body of certain metallic substances, and d) to further the absorption of morbid deposits. Of the many drugs and medicines that no doubt ...
— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig
... not surprising that the host had occasionally to take the waters of Ditchling, which are no longer drunk medicinally, or to dose himself with ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas
... of a note or not. I have myself frequently seen and tasted what is appropriately termed by the peasantry "Stone Marrow." It is found in the heart of a kind of soft granite, or perhaps I should rather say freestone. The country people use it medicinally, but I cannot remember what particular disease it is said to cure. It is a soft, saponaceous substance, not unpleasant to the taste, of a bluish color, and melts in the mouth, like the fat of cold meat, leaving the palate greasy. How far an investigation into its nature ...
— The Poor Scholar - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton |
