castor

• "And the little pepper-castor, of course," I said, "is what one puts at the end to make it sneeze. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914
• If a laxative be called for, citrate of magnesia is much pleasanter and equally as efficacious as the castor-oil so frequently administered on this occasion TO HAVE LABOR WITHOUT PAIN Is it possible to avoid the throes of labor, and have children without suffering? —  The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother
• The tale or tradition in regard to the self-mutilation inflicted by the castor is traced to the Arabian merchants who purchased the castoreum, which was imported from the shores of the Persian Gulf and from India. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
• Had the government provided a pot of castor-oil wherein the tar could dip his penile organ, as bridge piles are dipped into a creasoting mixture, these humiliations to our professional brother could have been avoided In the conclusion to be reached, circumcision is not put forward as the only exempting element or preventive measure that deserves all the credit for the immunity that the Jews enjoy from syphilis, or to the absence of hereditary diseases that are secondary or due to the presence of that disease in the parents, as considerable credit is to be given to the well-known chastity of their females. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
• If there should appear to be any chance of saving it, it should be washed with warm water, carefully dried, and fed frequently with small quantities of new milk, mixed, according to the apparent weakness of the animal, either with raw eggs or good gruel; while the bowels should, if occasion requires, be opened by means of small doses of castor-oil. —  Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure

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