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  • The cerates is a serpent who hides himself in the sand, covering himself so thoroughly only his horns remain exposed.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • The cerates is a serpent who hides himself in the sand, covering himself so thoroughly only his horns remain exposed.

    Sigh. WMAM. 2008

  • This kind of cerates a problem if someone lives in a multiple dwelling.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons) 2010

  • This kind of cerates a problem if someone lives in a multiple dwelling.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons) 2010

  • The slight bleeding is stopped by burnt rags or ashes and healed with cerates, pledgets and fumigations.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But there is nothing to prevent fomentations and cerates being applied for the other pains of the sides; and the legs and loins may be rubbed with hot oil, or anointed with fat; linseed, too, in the form of a cataplasm, may be applied to the hypochondrium and as far up as the breasts.

    On Regimen In Acute Diseases 2007

  • To-day the toilet table would be loaded with milkweed, cerates and vanishing cream; tomorrow they would all be swept away, given to delighted chambermaids, while Mrs. Condon declared that, when all was said, cold water and a rough towel was nature's way.

    Linda Condon Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Perhaps mercurial plasters, or cerates, made without turpentine in them, might have been more efficacious, in preventing the marks, and especially if applied early in the disease, even on the first day of the eruption, and renewed daily.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • When the bowels are loose during the whole course of fevers, in this case we are most especially to warm the feet, and see that they are properly treated with cerates, and wrapped in shawls, so that they may not become colder than the rest of the body; but when they are hot, no fomentation must be made to them, but care is to be taken that they do not become cold; and very little drink is to be used, either cold water or hydromel.

    On Regimen In Acute Diseases 2007

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