Guiacum

Word GUIACUM
Character 7
Hyphenation gui a cum
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Datura; and to such as are cold, the [4134] decoction of guiacum, China sarsaparilla, sassafras, the flowers of carduus benedictus, which I find much used by Montanus in his Consultations, Julius ❋ Unknown (2007)

Danube, the Ganges, the Nile, and the Great Yellow River, are nothing but sulphur, nitre, and oil of guiacum, which only wait for the moment of explosion to reduce the earth to ashes, as it has already once been. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The organ was indeed the strangest that ever eyes beheld; for the pipes were of cassia fistula in the cod; the top and cornice of guiacum; the bellows of rhubarb; the pedas of turbith, and the clavier or keys of scammony. ❋ Unknown (2002)

This liquor which, we think, was a tincture of guiacum, cinnamon, cloves, and other aromatic substances, produced on our tongues an agreeable feeling, and for a short while removed the thirst which destroyed us. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Keep the bowels open by a pill of aloes and myrrh, and take a small teaspoonful of the volatile tincture of guiacum three times a day, in water. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Still nearer to the river, and at the distance of some three or four hundred yards from this group, two pedestrian travellers appeared, cautiously advancing along the road, where it wound through an extensive wood of guiacum and cedrela trees. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

This liquor, which we believe was an essence of guiacum, cinnamon, cloves, and other aromatic substances, produced on our tongues a delightful sensation, and removed for a few moments the thirst which consumed us. ❋ Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny (1818)

For three months in the beginning of this year she had been under the care of Dr. Darwin, who at different times had given her blue vitriol, elaterium, and calomel; decoction of pareira brava, and guiacum wood, with tincture of cantharides; oxymel of squills, decoction of parsley roots, &c. ❋ William Withering (1770)

About a month afterwards he had some rheumatic affections, which were removed by guiacum. ❋ William Withering (1770)

We visited our patient together, and repeated the draughts directed on the 26th of _June_, with the addition of tincture of bark, and also ordered pills of aloes, guiacum, and sal martis to be taken if costive. ❋ William Withering (1770)

Our patient being thus snatched from impending destruction, Dr. Darwin proposed to give her a decoction of pareira brava and guiacum shavings, with pills of myrrh and white vitriol; and, if costive, a pill with calomel and aloes. ❋ William Withering (1770)

Now and then he gave a little iron or sulphur or calomel, but very rarely; occasionally, a good, honest dose of rhubarb or jalap; a taste of stinging horseradish, oftener of warming guiacum; sometimes an anodyne, in the shape of mithridate, -- the famous old farrago, which owed its virtue to poppy juice; [This is the remedy which a Boston divine tried to simplify. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

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