assafoetida

• “He is clothed in a white tunic and embroidered cloak or mantle, and he carries a scepter in his left hand; under his seat is a leopard, and his right hand he holds toward a young man, who makes the same gesture, and he is weighing in a large scale assafoetida, which is being let down into the hold of the ship.”

  Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures

• “A perpetual fire of fulminating balls would bang from under the feet of the faithful; odors of impure assafoetida would mingle with the fumes of the incense; and wicked drinking choruses would rise up along with the holy canticles, in hideous dissonance, reminding one of the old orgies under the reign of the”

  The Paris Sketch Book

• “When she came out of the bath, she took assafoetida drops, and was fluttered all day; so that we could hardly keep her from going into hysterics: but her mistress says it will do her good; and poor Win curtsies, with the tears in her eyes.”

  The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

• “To me the odor seemed precisely that supposed to be produced by the admixture of garlic and assafoetida; and as a plate piled with the rich golden pulp was placed before me by our hostess, I came so near fainting as to be compelled to seek the open air.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873

• “A stable is their delight, almost their home, and their olfactories are refreshed by nothing so much as by the smell of old litter, to which attar of roses is assafoetida in comparison.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843

• “No man was ever _born_ a drunkard; nor are we born with a natural taste or thirst for alcoholic drinks, any more than we are born with an appetite for aloes, assafoetida, or any other drug or medicine.”

  Select Temperance Tracts

• “With some, the sense of smelling is so dull, as not to distinguish hyacinths from assafoetida; they would even pass the Small-Pox Hospital, and Maiden-lane, without noticing the knackers; whilst others, detecting instantly the slightest particle of offensive matter, hurry past the apothecaries, and get into an agony of sternutation, at fifty yards from Fribourg's.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829

• “The assafoetida was mixed with an equal part of powdered yellow gentian, and this was given to the extent of about 8 grains a day in the food.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884

• “Another remedy recommended by M. M.gnin was the strong smelling vermifuge assafoetida, known sometimes by the suggestive name of "devil's dung.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884

• “This was worse than the first, for it contained assafoetida instead of ammonia.”

  The Hilltop Boys A Story of School Life

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