opoponax

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I have a smalls square of 'naptime' on the wall right now (I think it is Pratt and Lambert) which I do really like, although I need to put a second coat to really get a sense. opoponax - steal away.

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  • As opoponax points out, there are many modern places in Brooklyn, and there are many people who love brownstones. —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • I have a smalls square of 'naptime' on the wall right now (I think it is Pratt and Lambert) which I do really like, although I need to put a second coat to really get a sense. opoponax - steal away. —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • Kenzo Flower the original has wild hawthorne, rose, violet, cassia, hedione, cyclosal, opoponax, white musk and vanilla, and smells like very expensive face powder to me. —  Perfume Posse
  • A superb and subtle chord floated about him; it was composed of vervain, opoponax, and frangipane. —  Visionaries
  • Sprains of the ankle are to be treated by placing the joint immediately in very cold water ad repercussionem spiritus et sanguinis_, and the joint is to be kept thus refrigerated until it even becomes numb (_stupefactionem_); after which stupes of salt water and urine are to be applied, followed by a plaster of galbanum, opoponax, the apostolicon, etc Fractures of the femur are to be treated like those of the humerus, except that the ends of the fractured bone are to be separated by the space of an inch, and a bandage six fingers in width carefully applied. —  Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
 

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