opodeldoc

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I've notified you fair FOOTNOTE 9: opodeldoc--a camphorated liniment of soap mixed with alcohol And then I collaborates with myself, and offers the following resolutions and by-laws Friendship between man and man,' says I, 'is an ancient historical virtue enacted in the days when men had to protect each other against lizards with eighty-foot tails and flying turtles.

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  1. A plaster said to have been invented by Mindererus.
  2. A saponaceous camphorated liniment; a solution of soap in alcohol with the addition of camphor and essential oils: hence sometimes called soap-liniment.

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  • Friction by means of the hand either with opodeldoc or with laudanum, taking care not to drink the lotion by mistake, will also give relief Illustration: A PRECIOUS FLOWER 19. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
  • Then a piece of lint soaked in camphorated spirits, opodeldoc or camphor liniment may be applied and retained on the part. —  Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society
  • I've notified you fair FOOTNOTE 9: opodeldoc--a camphorated liniment of soap mixed with alcohol And then I collaborates with myself, and offers the following resolutions and by-laws Friendship between man and man,' says I, 'is an ancient historical virtue enacted in the days when men had to protect each other against lizards with eighty-foot tails and flying turtles. —  Heart of the West [Annotated]
  • Rubbing the joint with opodeldoc, or the application of a blister to it, is of great service in taking away the thickenings, which often remain after all heat, pain, and redness have left an injured joint. —  The Book of Household Management
  • When she reached home Varvara Pavlovna bounded lightly out of the carriage--only real lionesses know how to bound like that--and turning round to Gedeonovsky she burst suddenly into a ringing laugh right in his face An attractive person," thought the counsellor of state as he made his way to his lodgings, where his servant was awaiting him with a glass of opodeldoc: "It's well I'm a steady fellow--only, what was she laughing at Marfa Timofyevna spent the whole night sitting beside Lisa's bed Chapter XLI Lavretsky spent a day and a half at Vassilyevskoe, and employed almost all the time in wandering about the neighbourhood. —  A House of Gentlefolk
 

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  1. Also opodeldock; = French opodeldoch, opodeltoch; apparently a made-up name, perhaps based on Greek ὀπός, juice.
 

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