Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A medicinal remedy very popular in the earlier half of the seventeenth century.
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I've lost my count, comes salt of vipers -- next, powder of unicorn's horn -- next, oil of scorpions from Naples -- next, dragon-water -- all admirable.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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