It is what chemists would call the 'menstruum' in which all our qualities are worked and made manifest, which holds them together. ❋ Unknown (1892)
So the Wazir bade unbind him and he rose and taking virgin glass,554 brayed it and mixed it with unslaked lime and a menstruum of onion-juice. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Nilotes held the moon to be of “male-female sex,” the men sacrificing to Luna and the women to Lunus. 387 Isis also was a hermaphrodite, the idea being that Aether or Air (the lower heavens) was the menstruum of generative nature; and Damascius explained the tenet by the all-fruitful and prolific powers of the atmosphere. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Keeping this doughty resolution, he sat down to dinner with his counsel learned in the law; and speedily they dispatched the dish of chops which was set before them, and the better part of the bottle of old port, which served for its menstruum. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Note 55: Dinant, p. 23: "Dicit autem ARISTOTELES feminam quodammodo esse marem imperfectum et eius menstruum sanguinem esse indigestum sperma; similem superfluitatem esse sperma viri et menstruum sanguinem mulieris excepto quod superfluitas hec maior in femina est et colorem retinet sanguineum propter defectum caloris digerentis." back ❋ Unknown (2005)
Note 65: The only reference I have found of medical writings linking women's monthly cycles with the Christian notion of original sin appears in the work of a woman, Hildegard of Bingen's Causae et curae (ed.P. Kaiser [Leipzig, 1903]), in which the author emphatically drew a parallel between Eve's actions in the Garden and menstrual cycles: Quare menstruum. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Note 164: Canon, 1.3.3, fols. 66va-b: "Nutrici preterea est precipiendum ut temperato utatur et ut nutrientibus boni chimi alatur et ne ullo modo aliquis cum ea coeat: hoc enim sanguinem permiscet menstruum, et lactis odorem corrumpit, et ipsius minuit quantitatem, immo fortasse impregnatur in quo nocumentum duobus attinens filiis existit." back ❋ Unknown (2005)
“Prandy was the best menstruum for onions and sheese.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
While most tinctures are in a ratio of one part herb to five parts menstruum, extracts are more concentrated, as much as one to one. ❋ JOHN LUST (2003)
“Though we talk of the progress that the race has made in learning and enlightenment,” he wrote, “it is alarming to notice … how germs which men deem dead really lurk dormant for ages, and then develop themselves with startling rapidity when they find the proper menstruum”: ❋ JOE JACKSON (2003)
Because of the size of the organisms, they may be more economically harvested out of the fermentation menstruum. ❋ Unknown (1979)
KELLY has teaching to the same effect, the Mercury of the Philosophers being for him the menstruum or medium wherein the copulation of Gold with Silver is to be accomplished. ❋ Unknown (1969)
Taoists encoraged controlled sexual activity to in - crease yet conserve the ching, identified with semen and menstruum but ethereal. ❋ GERALD J. GRUMAN (1968)
When we consider the composition of the atmosphere, and that it owes its formation and existence to this cause, and, thereby becomes the menstruum of all created matter, we may be better able to understand the composition and formation of vinous spirits, and, by closely copying the original, more successfully imitate nature. ❋ Joseph Coppinger (N/A)
Dr. Knight says very justly, "that the explication of the manner of the operation of chalybeate medicines in human bodies is grounded upon false principles, and not matters of fact; to wit, that all chalybeate preparations, in a liquid form, owe their medicinal efficacy to the metal dissolved, whether in an aqueous or spirituous menstruum, retaining its metallic texture." ❋ Hugh Smith (N/A)
When hard-boiled white of egg is kept in warm water, it absorbs a considerable quantity of that menstruum, as much as several units per cent.; consequently, on weighing the residual albumen, you may find that the weight is greater instead of less than that with which you started, the gain in weight due to absorbed water more than counterbalancing the loss obtaining through solution, as has happened with indifferent samples of pepsin. ❋ Various (N/A)
While, therefore, a calculus is only as urine precipitated and solidified, and this fluid only as calculous matter suspended in a menstruum, it must appear that the lithic diathesis is as natural and universal as structural disintegration is constant and general in operation. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)
Among the Rosicrucians, who have, by some, been improperly confounded with the Freemasons, the word _lux_ was used to signify a knowledge of the philosopher's stone, or the great desideratum of a universal elixir and a universal menstruum. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
The menstruum may be water, to which a little spirits and a few drops of oil of rosemary to increase its stimulating qualities have been added. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Impure spirits of 40° Gay-Lussac, and not water, should be used as a menstruum for the salt of copper. ❋ Various (N/A)
