The statements of alcohol content of elixirs in this volume refer to percentage of absolute alcohol by volume.
The alcohol of the elixirs and wines may be distinctly harmful in gastric disorders, while the other ingredients of the many complex mixtures need be prescribed only when direct indications for them exist.
The elixirs containing various formates are intended as tonics, but there is no good evidence that they have such action.
The elixirs of the alchemists were solutions employed in their fruitless attempts to transmute the baser metals into gold.
The next day he placed the Book of Records on his table and hung the Magic Picture on his wall and put away in his cupboards and drawers all the elixirs and magic compounds he had stolen.
Glinda believed that when she had time to gather more magical herbs and elixirs and to manufacture more magical instruments, she would be able to discover who the robber was and what had become of her precious Book of Records.
In thy philosophy there is naught but dreams of elixirs of life or homunculi.
You just stop at home, and grub away among your musty manuscripts, and work away at your protoplasms and your elixirs of life.
These fruits can be either elixirs of life and food of the gods, or weapons for overcoming the dragon as Hathor (Sekhet) was conquered by her sedative draught.
Tinctures orElixirs impregnated with Resinous matters only are true Varnishes.
If your Tinctures or Elixirs be not so strong or so saturated as you desire, you may by distillation abstract part of the Spirit of Wine which they contain, and by that means give them such a degree of thickness as you judge proper.
These are the Men whose Sagacity has invented Elixirs of all sorts, Pills and Lozenges, and take it as an Affront if you come to them before you are given over by every Body else.
Whereas the real world is manifold, and contains the elixirs of pleasure and pain, confidence and despair, love and hate, only as elements so to speak, the world of great poets is the world of one single feeling.
He has measured all the deeps of the spirit, but all the words of religion and science, all the elixirs of life, have been powerless to save him from this torment.
Glinda believed that when she had time to gather more magical herbs and elixirs and to manufacture more magical instruments she would be able to discover who the robber was, and what had become of her precious Book of Records.
The "Elixirs of Life" made by the early alchemists may be said to have been the forerunners of quack medicines, and for these concoctions fabulous prices were demanded.
The Collyrium of Danares, a famous quack eye lotion, was sold at Constantinople for L9 a bottle, and the elixirs sold by Paracelsus and Van Helmont brought extortionate prices.
The royal favorites are covering it with flowers and garlands; the royal Rosicrucians are administering elixirs and wonder-working potions, to obscure the eye and shut out the fearful vision.
But my eyes are blinded, and my brain is still in darkness; these substances and elixirs are unknown to me; I only feel that their fragrance fills me with wondrous delight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elixirs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
