Her hands were of finely veined alabaster with tapering fingers and as white as lemonjuice and queen of ointments could make them though it was not true that she used to wear kid gloves in bed or take a milk footbath either.
Coolsoft withointments her hand touched me, caressed: her eyes upon me did not turn away.
Many of them travelled from fair to fair in order to make a little money by the sale of white lead, vermilion, antimony, and other drugs used by women for painting the face, and drugs which the Scripture calls ointments of lust.
The Greeks called their embrocations or ointments euchrista.
Of conserves there were innumerable varieties, and ointments of oil and wax, as well as liniments and plasters of herbs and flowers, well boiled with oil or spirits.
We saw that several of the slabs on which ointments were prepared had evidently been used for sharpening knives, and whetstones are often found of varying degrees of roughness from sandstone to fine argillaceous smooth stones.
Besides its use as a sound the nucleus was frequently used as a means of applying medicaments, either in the form of ointments or dry powder, to affected parts.
Pots for ointments of certain kinds were made of iron, and we have actually two of these which had been the property of a Roman oculist whose full name is known.
Galen speaks of sounds or directors of wood, and ointment spatulae of wood are very frequently mentioned in the therapeutic works, as are also boxes for storing ointments in.
Art of applying perfumed ointmentsto the body, and of dressing the hair with unguents and perfumes and braiding it.
These attendants should place before the King the ointments and unguents sent by each of these wives, marked with the seal of her ring, and their names and their reasons for sending the ointments should be told to the King.
When the wife wants to approach her husband in private her dress should consist of many ornaments, various kinds of flowers, and a cloth decorated with different colours, and some sweet-smelling ointments or unguents.
Your hair has the odor of ointments that are not of the cattle-pens, and your hands are not hard in the spots where the sling-strings cut.
Ointments and perfumes of the newest fashion in Athens?
Ointments or lotions containing tar should always be tried at first upon a limited surface, as occasionally skins are met with upon which this remedy acts as a more or less violent irritant.
Only when it is unusually persistent or severe; in such cases the various soothing applications, lotions or ointments employed in acute eczema are to be prescribed.
The most efficient soothing applications are the mild lotions and ointments employed in eczema of acute type.
Ointments are to be rubbed in or applied as a plaster; lotions, employed chiefly in ulcers and ulcerations, are to be thoroughly dabbed on, and usually supplemented by the application of an ointment.
When attention to the wearing apparel is not immediately practicable, ointments of sulphur and staphisagria, and lotions of carbolic acid, may be advised as temporary measures.
After some little experience of it in ointments and suppositories, I believe it deodorises these--an important advantage.
These ointmentscontained all manner of materials that were likely to impress patients and make them feel that something wonderful was being done for them.
In the Middle Ages ointments made of the most far-fetched materials were employed even by distinguished surgeons.
Another important ingredient inointments were portions of dead bodies.
Mercurial ointments are used in this affection, and often with very great benefit.
The long continued use of warm fomentations, or poultices, is prejudicial, as tending to diminish still farther the action of the parts; ointments can be of little service, and will generally do harm.
It may be observed generally, that no benefit can be derived from external applications to tumours, such as friction with liniments or ointments containing iodine, mercury, &c.
The tar or citrineointments may be applied to the eruptions and cutaneous ulcers.
Ointments containing veratria and aconitine have been used with advantage, and the endermic application of the salts of morphia has also been found useful.
Powders and ointments may be used during the early stages of the inflammation.
The nodules should be treated with vaseline, or glycerine ointments containing two per cent of any of the common antiseptics or disinfectants.
Hoof ointments should be avoided so far as possible.
Ointments are recommended for animals that are slightly affected with mange.
All the boasted Virtues of a Multitude of Ointments are downright Nonsense or Quackery.
Sharp and greasy Unctions or Ointmentsproduce very bad Effects, and are equally dangerous.
Some greasy Ointments were applied hot to them, the Consequence of which was, the Necessity of cutting off six of his Fingers.
These remedies may be used in the form of ointments of the same strength smeared upon a rather large flexible bougie.
Small fly blisters or strong iodine paint may be applied close to the joints, or the ordinary iodine tincture may be brushed over them, or the above ointments or liniments and one of the bland oils may be more forcibly rubbed in.
Chronic cases of piles have been cured by the application of ointments containing carbonate of lead, creasote, carbolic acid, or iodoform.
Should ulceration attack the legs, as is often the case, the application of mild astringents and stimulative ointments will be all that is required.
When the swellings break, apply emollient ointmentsfor a few days.
Ointments are spread on calicoes, lint, or even thin layers of tow by means of a knife; they should not be spread too thick.
It is good in salves and ointmentsto take away swellings.
Melilot is good in salves and ointments for swellings and inflammations.
But that suitable discourse might not fail, Fate sent them, overtaking and overtaken upon the road, the courteous Dacca physician, who paid for his food in ointments good for goitre and counsels that restore peace between men and women.
It nodded like a wind-blown harebell down the valleys and round the mountain sides, and in due time the lama and Kim, who steered by compass, would overhaul it, vending ointments and powders at eventide.
The efficacy of these ointments is well illustrated by a story narrated by Reginald Scot, which unfortunately, on account of certain incidents, cannot be given in his own terse words.
Most effectual ointments were prepared for effecting this method of locomotion, which have been recorded, and are given below[3] as an illustration of the wild kind of recipes which Shakspere rendered more grim in his caldron scene.
Footnote 3: "Sundrie receipts and ointments made and used for the transportation of witches, and other miraculous effects.
Ointments Ointments are spread on calicoes, lint, or even thin layers of tow, by means of a knife; they should not be spread too thick.
Ointments and Cerates These remedies are used as local applications to parts, generally ulcers.
He was twice salivated by mercurial ointments applied to cure the itch (scabies), a disease which was epidemic at times among the boys.
Nature takes up the work of elimination by means of skin eruptions and ulcers in various parts of the body, but these also are promptly suppressed with mercurial ointments and other alternatives.
But soon with soothingointments Paeon's hand (For death on him was powerless) heal'd the wound.
The leech shall tend thy wound, and spread it o'er With healing ointments to assuage the pain.
And the sons of the priests made the ointments of the spices.
He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as whenointments boil.
Spread the ointments or oil over the burn thick and cover with lint or soft linen, and change frequently to keep from smelling badly.
It is frequently used as the basis for ointments and cerates and in domestic practice as a lubricant.
Apply plasters and ointments to the loins in order to strengthen the fruit in the womb.
It is such a subtile and insinuating poison that it spreads universally, and infects the most precious ointments of the soul, and, as it were, poisons the very antidote and counterpoison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ointments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
