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- noun Plural form of
chalybeate .
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Examples
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It is only necessary to add a few further remarks, in order to shew in what particular complaints chalybeates, even in their most perfect state, are pernicious.
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-- Without the least reflection on chalybeates and the rest, it must be allowed that the most popular beverage in Mudhall at present is that which draws its virtue from a cereal and not a mineral source.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 Various
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Lord Fareham asked, one August afternoon, when the ghost party at Millbank was almost forgotten amid a succession of entertainments on land and river; a fortnight at Epsom to drink the waters; and a fortnight at Tunbridge -- where the Queen and Court were spending the close of summer -- to neutralise the bad effects of Epsom chalybeates with a regimen of Kentish sulphur.
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It may be advantageously combined with chalybeates.
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He was repeatedly bled, and purged with calomel, had an emetic, and a blister on the part, without diminishing the tumour; after some time he took the Peruvian bark, and slight doses of chalybeates, and thus became free from the fever, and went to Bath for several weeks, but the tumour remained.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The quickness of the pulse is frequently so great and permanent, that when attended by an accidental cough, the disease may be mistaken for hectic fever; but is cured by chalybeates, and bitters exhibited twice a day; with half a grain of opium, and a grain of aloe every night; and the expected catamenia appears in consequence of a restoration of the due quantity of red blood.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Afterwards the bark, and small doses of chalybeates.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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It seems paradoxical, that the same treatment with chalybeates, bitters, and opiates, which produces menstruation in chlorotic patients, should repress the too great or permanent menstruation, which occurs in weak constitutions at the time of life when it should cease.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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M.M. Aloe and calomel, then the bark, and chalybeates.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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This complaint is an hæmorrhage owing to the debility of the absorbent power of the veins, and belongs to the paragraph on venous absorption above described, and is thence curable by chalybeates, alum, bitters, and particularly by the exhibition of a grain of opium every night with five grains of rhubarb.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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