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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Oil obtained from the bodies of codfish, often mixed with the product from other fish: used in dressing leather.
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“If it lessen the appetite, or cause nausea, I employ it thrice a day as a rectal injection; and in cases where the large doses of iron used cause intense constipation, I find the use of cod-oil enemata doubly valuable, by acting as a nutriment and by disposing the bowels to act daily.”
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
“I remember well an old nurse who assured me when I was a student that "some fats is fast and some is fickle, but cod-oil fat is easy squandered.”
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
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