It is used by pugilists to remove the black appearance occasioned from extravasated blood, and for curing bruises on the face, particularly black-eyes obtained by boxing.
In Demerara, Berbice, and some of our West India islands, where much good coffee is now raised, a different mode of treating the pulpy fruit and curing the beans is adopted.
By the judicious employment of pyrolignous acid diluted to successive degrees, we might probably succeed in imitating perfectly the effect of smoke in curing provisions.
Instead of wooden tubs, pits or trenches dug in the ground are sometimes had recourse to for curing the beans; an operation called earthing (terrer).
It is necessary to show, in the next place, that medicinal substances are always capable of curing diseases most like their own symptoms.
Such was the specific which the great metaphysician recommended for averting and curing all manner of diseases.
That drugs should be shown to be always capable of curing those diseases most like their own symptoms.
He was interested and allured by the hope of curing this nervous complaint.
Still I should have liked to see pictures of the young doctor, the young surgeon and the young chemist curing patients of hernia and being martyred for the faith.
I will take these instruments and medicine and earn money by curing those who will be sure to be upset by the badness of the food.
A Burmese mode of curing a sick man is to bury a small effigy of him in a tiny coffin, after which he ought certainly to recover.
The impression prevails among many that the work of collecting the proper kind, curing and preparing for the market is an occupation to be undertaken only by those having experience and a wide knowledge of their species, uses, etc.
Many assert that the future demand for Ginseng will be a decreasing one, from the fact that its imaginary properties of curing every disease on earth will be dissipated in proportion to the advance of medical science.
Either the Korean method of cultivation, curing or marketing was superior to the American method or centuries of experience in its cultivation had taught him a lesson and a secret we had yet to learn.
In curing they should be kept from the sun as too rapid curing tends to draw the natural color and this should be preserved as much as possible.
Hence recourse is had to ghosts for aid both in causing and in curing sickness.
Any serious ailment is usually attributed to magic or witchcraft, and the treatment which is resorted to aims rather at breaking the spell which has been cast on the sick man than at curing his malady by the application of physical remedies.
The sorcerers being supposed to have the power of causing, as well as of curing diseases, are much dreaded by the common people, who never wilfully offend them.
No sane person ever thinks of washing off these appearances with the hope of curing the case!
I have repeatedly cured nymphomania by curing physical, or constitutional symptoms.
When this piece is trimmed and ready for curing or for roasting, it appears as shown in Fig.
One of the chief advantages of pork is that about nine-tenths of the entire dressed animal may be preserved by curing and smoking.
Suggestion treatment is of great use incuring nervous states and bad habits, and all neuropaths should practice self- or auto-suggestion.
At high curing temperatures, gas-producing organisms develop rapidly; therefore more trouble is experienced in summer than at other seasons.
Within the last few years considerable study has been given the subject of cheese curing or ripening, in order to explain how this physical and chemical transformation is brought about.
Influence ofcuring temperature on texture of cheese.
Then again, the production of undesirable flavors or impairment in texture may arise from imperfect curing conditions.
Adametz[196] added to green cheese various disinfectants, as creolin and thymol, and found that this practically stopped the curing process.
The defective conditions previously referred to can rarely be overcome in cheese so as to improve the affected product, for they only become manifest in most cases during the later stages of the curing process.
Much of the poor quality of cheese is attributable to the effect of improper curing conditions.
The view that is most generally accepted is that this most important phase of cheese curing is dependent upon bacterial activity, but the organisms that are concerned in this process have not as yet been satisfactorily determined.
The place breathed the very atmosphere of decay and death, and the imbecile ancient, curing in the smoke the token of death, was himself palsiedly shaking into the disintegration of the grave.
It would be too much trouble to follow a regular diet, and what is the use of curing such a trifling inconvenience when I am certain of getting it again in a fortnight.
It was there that the matrons, whose great age justified their experience, insisted on proving, by absurd tales, that they knew all the marvellous secrets for causing happiness or for curing sickness.
It was popularly believed that the Knights of St. Hubert had the power of curing madness, which, for some unknown reason, never showed itself in a pack of hounds.
I accepted of him in the hopes of curing him, but I half despair of it.
So I advised her to eat a great deal of mustard, having seen in an advertisement something about essence of mustard curing the most obstinate cases of rheumatism.
I told him I admired his pronunciation, for that lately they had been found "to suspend ruptures without curing them.
That stint; must have gone too deep for any consolations of philosophy to be available in curingits smart?
He did not again have recourse to wine for curing his griefs, but even in his sober mood he soon showed that the iron of jealousy had entered into his soul.
The great French surgeon, Majendie, is even said to have commenced his official course of lectures on one occasion by coolly saying to his students: "Gentlemen, the curing of disease is a subject that physicians know nothing about.
An ancient physician named Serenus Sammonicus, used to be quite sure of curing fevers, by means of what he called Abracadabra, which was a sort of inscription to be written on something and worn on the patient's person.
But this fellow is ready for old fools as well young ones, for he has recipes for curing baldness and removing wrinkles.
Some of them are now settled at Cuttack, where they have set up as native doctors, whose speciality is curing piles.
I Of Tobacco, with the way of cultivating and curing it.
Of the Choice of Negroes; of their Distempers, and the Manner of curing them SECT.
Of Tobacco, with the Way of cultivating andcuring it II.
This inner bark has the property of curing the tooth-ach.
Of the Choice of Negroes; of their Distemper, and the Manner of curing them.
The Naturist who applies the Schroth Cure for the purpose of curing chronic diseases uses fruit as his chief eliminating agent.
From Valencia, or from across the channel at Portmagee, where there is a thriving fish-curing industry, the Skelligs can be reached in favourable weather.
Factory, as well as the fine bacon-curing establishment of the Wholesale Co-operative Society which has been erected under the management of the well known Mr. Joseph Prosser.
The great bacon-curing houses of Denny, at Waterford, are well worth seeing, as is also the thriving wholesome Co-operative Factory at Tralee.
The medicine in all these cases, manifested so very decided a power in arresting the progress, and even in curing the disease, that we think ourselves safe in recommending a trial of it in similar cases.
The possibility of curing ascites and dropsy of the ovaria, by exciting inflammation in the abdominal sac, either by the admission of air into it, or mechanical irritation; and 4th.
These cases were cured, the latter by a severe, light diet, and some antispasmodics, the names of which are not mentioned; the other by curing the rheumatism.
The same physician extols mallows, not for fomentation, but as a good edible vegetable, appeasing hunger andcuring the sore throat at the same time.
They, however, used it externally in curing the itch, and John de Vigo employed it to cure the plague.
Mayflowers, said, 'I have no money to pay you for curing my head of scrofula, and I thought these flowers might please you.
Or can I, in a few chapters, instruct such in the art of curing complicated diseases?
He advertised quite as much by telling one man he was past all help, and would die in eight weeks, which he did, as by curing the mayor of the city of a cough that jeoparded his life.
