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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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