Both the unicorn's horn and the bezoar stone were sovereign antidotes against poison.
At another time Winthrop had sent to him "bezoar stone, mugwort, orgaine, and galingall root.
Christophorus Ayrerus prefers bezoar stone, and the confection of alkermes, before other cordials, and amber in some cases.
In one case a midwife claimed to have a bezoar stone[17] found in the body of an eel.
There is a bezoar stone from the banti tree that gets its owner to a place more quickly than his rival.
Bezoar stones are hard substances, of a dark color, and vary in size from a pea to a chestnut.
Thus the bezoar stones from three different plants are supposed to be efficacious in the hour of birth, but, at the same time, in all the doings of life they give the fortunate possessor success over his rival.
Other magic medicines exist such as aphrodisiacs, and bezoar stones.
He stated that he had done so and that he had found a bezoar stone which he had given to a sick relative of his.
This bag is said to have bezoar stones[21] placed in it in order that the rice may not only not diminish but may even increase in quantity.
Capra aegagrus, the Bezoar goat, detached from the adjacent intestine, and illustrates the type of the ruminant pouch, of considerable length and caliber, without terminal reduction.
With respect to the occidental bezoar we can affirm they proceed neither from goats nor gazelles, for we shall prove there is neither of them, nor even any animal of that genus, in all the extent of the new world.
The eighth animal is generally called the Bezoar antelope, but by the eastern nations pasan, which name we retain.
If we believe Rumphius, Seba, and some other authors, the true oriental bezoar is the production of apes and not of gazelles, goats, or sheep.
Andreas Lacuna, a Spanish physician, says, in his Commentaries on Dioscorides, that the oriental bezoar is extracted from a certain kind of wild goat which feeds in the mountains of Persia.
Chardin positively says, that oriental bezoar is found in the wild and domestic goats on the shore of the Persian gulph, and in many provinces of India; and that in Persia it is also to be met with in sheep.
The lamas and the pacos afford the bestbezoar when in their natural or wild state: those produced in their state of slavery are small, black, and of but little or no virtue.
The oriental bezoar then is clearly not the production of one particular animal but of many different ones; and it is not difficult to reconcile the testimonies of most travellers with this opinion.
It is this animal which produces the true "bezoar stone.
In the intestines (as in those of some other mammals) are found Bezoar stones, or Bezards as they are variously spelt.
Footnote 139: In old times, oriental bezoar was prized at a high rate in medicine, having many fancied valuable qualities, now found by experience to be altogether imaginary; so that it is now confined to cabinets of curiosities.
To the general he gave a handsome Java dagger, which is much esteemed there, a good bezoar stone, and some other things.
Every thing being arranged, the general went to court to take his leave of the king, from whom he received a letter for Queen Elizabeth, with a present of some fine bezoar stones.
Macasser is an island not far from Celebes, having abundance of bezoar stones, which are there to be had at reasonable rates.
Besides the skin and flesh of the huanacos, the bezoar stone, which is often found in their insides, is of value.
Peru also boasts of pacos, macomoros, and tarùgas, which are almost of the same use and appearance as the former, and in like manner produce the bezoar stone.
These are thought by physicians superior to the bezoar stones supplied by other beasts, and more efficacious as medicine.
This use of the bezoar stone I submit to the judgment of physicians, for it must be confessed I never made trial of its virtues.
Indian snake-charmers profess to have a belief in the efficacy of snake-stones, or bezoar stones, as a remedy to be applied on the part bitten by a poisonous snake, a belief shared by the natives of many tropical countries.
The value of a bezoar stone being supposed to increase with its size, the larger are sold in India at very high prices.
After the distillation there remains a white matter, from which fresh spirit of nitre is again abstracted, and which being then washed with water is called Bezoar Mineral.
This is Bezoar Mineral: it is neither caustic nor emetic, and has only a sudorific virtue.
But this is not the case with the small remainder of Acid, which possibly still continues united with the Bezoar mineral prepared as here directed.
C14H8O9, found in bezoar stones, and obtained by the oxidation of gallic acid.
Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.
The Bezoar of Goa (Gowa) is an artificial product made up of musk, ambergris, and gum of tragacanth.
The Arabic name of thebezoar (badesar) has the meaning of antidote.
All through the Middle Ages, this oriental bezoar was looked upon as a most potent medicine against poisons, and it is still highly valued in the East.
Bezoar stones are sold by weight, the gold scale being used, and the value varies according to quality and to the scarcity or abundance of the commodity at the time of sale.
They are not unfrequently grated and mixed with water and drunk like the Bezoar stones, but usually they are kept merely as a touch-stone for gold.
This refreshment concluded, he drew from his girdle a bezoar or talismanic stone (batu penawar), and proceeded to rub it all over the patient's neck and shoulders.
The Bezoar stones known to the Peninsular Malays are usually obtained either from monkeys or porcupines.
Examples of tabasheer have already been quoted (under Vegetation Charms), but a few remarks about Bezoarstones may be of interest.
Soldiers marched in, escorting strings of mules carrying chests of gold and silver, goatskins filled with bezoar stones, and bales of vicuna wool.
A curious article of export, which is found only in this river, is the Galega, orBezoar stone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bezoar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
