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Likewise the cachexy, or evill habit of the body, and the dropsie in the beginning thereof, before it be too farre gone.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane
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But it must be either a dry dropsie, or a megrim or letarge, or a fistule
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Seigniour, which being drunk dries up all the cold and moist humours, disperses the wind, fortifies the Liver, eases the dropsie by its purifying quality, 'tis a Sovereign medicine against the itch, and corruptions of the blood, refreshes the heart, and the vital beating thereof, it relieves those that have pains in their
All About Coffee 1909
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Elways first 3 SB were with 3 dropsie receivers and an average RB.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local broncobuddyforlife 2010
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But it must be either a dry dropsie, or a megrim or letarge, or a fistule in ano, or some such other secret disease, as the common conuersant can hardly discouer, and the Phisition either not speedily heale, or not honestly bewray? of which infirmities the scoffing
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Sooey, Mother Superior, Church of Perpetual dropsie says: linzloowhoo’s got a stalker.
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Sooey, Mother Superior, Church of Perpetual dropsie says: linzloowhoo’s got a stalker.
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_catholicon_ against all infirmities whatever; and of the same berries is made an incomparable spirit, which drunk by it self, or mingled with wine, is not only an excellent drink, but admirable in the dropsie: In a word, the water of the leaves and berries is approved in the dropsie, every part of the tree being useful, as may be seen at large in
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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