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  1. ... perspiration, upon which, in a great degree, his safety depends. Should the skin remain hot and dry, bathing the feet and legs in warm water, and drinking freely of warm le- monade, vinegar w'- >y, catnip, boneset, snake root, balm or sage tea, will rarely fail ...
  2. ... kept steadily in view—first, to excite the skin into perspiration, and ... thoroughwort, sassafras, or snake root. At the same time, he must take ...
  3. ... felt quite sure that an external application of snake skin was a cure for all forms of that ... the head, or by the touch of a snake’s skin, and sore throat by wearing a snake’s skin ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Choice and profitable secrets both physicall, and chirurgical : formerly concealed, by the ... 
    Publication: London : Printed for the use and benefit of William Masters, 1658
    ... Also a gelly made of Harts horne, and Snakes skins. 106. To provoke the Courses. EXhibite almost a ... Also a gelly made of Harts horne, and Snakes skins. 106. To provoke the Courses. EXhibite almost a ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - The works of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Volume 14) 
    Publication: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892-1896
    ... them by and by. Do send me that snake-skin you speak of, and per- haps I will ... such a strange manifestation of creative animus. The snake-skin continues to be admired, and the rid- dle ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - The history of the human body 
    Publication: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1923
    ... forms a conspicuous feature of the exuviae, or “ snake-skins,” objects commonly met with in fields frequented by snakes. A lacrimal apparatus is wholly wanting. As special ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Materia medica : for physicians and students 
    Publication: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1883
    ... disperse wind : mint, cassia, mimosa pods, tigers’ bones, snakesskins, camphor. Medicines which reduce heat: yam, black pulse, ... be good for headaches, applied to the temples. Snakes.—The flesh, skin, head and tail of several kinds of snakes ...
  8. ... be bound to the sick man in a snake's skin; and likewise cures all fevers, the St. Anthony's ... cord six foot long, made by twisting the skins of snakes together; form a circle round the cypress stake, ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Geography made easy : being an abridgement of the American universal geography : to which are ... 
    Publication: Boston : Published by Thomas & Andrews, sold at their bookstore ... , Ezra Lincoln, printer, Sept. 1816
    ... lumber of various kinds, naval stores, leather, deer skins, snake root, myrtle, and bees wax, corn, and live ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Mother-love in action 
    Publication: New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, January 1919
    ... Collections of bird skins and eggs, butterflies, fossils, snake skins, plants, crystals, mineral specimens, and shells—all offer ...
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