It was like opodeldoc stuffed into an aching tooth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

Friction by means of the hand either with opodeldoc or with laudanum, taking care not to drink the lotion by mistake, will also give relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

And the leader passed on, leaving East better for those few words than all the opodeldoc in England would have made him, and Tom ready to give one of his ears for as much notice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown's Schooldays]

‘You mustn’t believe all that fellow Greyson tells you: he wants me to take salts and senna, opodeldoc, and all that sort of stuff; looks after his bill, you know — eh? like all the rest of you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Thorne] Reference

Agitate occasionally for twenty-four hours, and by gelatinization a beautiful and semi-solidified, opodeldoc-looking compound results, which will retain its consistency and hold the ingredients intimately blended for months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

ETC., in pregnancy, caused by the pressure of the enlarged womb on the nerves, are often troublesome, but not attended with any danger, and may be speedily relieved by a change of posture, and friction, or rubbing with opodeldoc, spirits of camphor, or hot whisky and salt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

Later, frictions with opodeldoc, or with some stimulating liniment, and supporting the parts by pressure made with a flannel roller, or laced stocking when the ankle is involved, will be useful to restore tone; or strips of adhesive plaster properly applied will be useful for the same purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

Soon after going on board, my master turned in; and as the captain and some of the passengers seemed to think this strange, and also questioned me respecting him, my master thought I had better get out the flannels and opodeldoc which we had prepared for the rheumatism, warm them quickly by the stove in the gentleman's saloon, and bring them to his berth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery] Reference

Miss Abigail's sanitary stores, including a bottle of opodeldoc, were never called into requisition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Bad Boy] Reference

His essences were of anise-seed, cloves, red-cedar, wormwood, together with opodeldoc, and an oil for the hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1] Reference

When the inflammation and tumefaction have disappeared, rub the parts with opodeldoc, or other stimulating mixtures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

Miss Petingill contributed a bottle of ginger balsam, and a box of opodeldoc salve, to be used in case of possible chilblains.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Katy Did at School] Reference

And, say, how is it up there in the opodeldoc zone that they can get these high-water pant legs to fit so much like lengths of stovepipe?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torchy] Reference

Stimulating friction to the parts, such as spirits of camphor, or camphorated liniment, mercurial ointment, tincture of iodine, opodeldoc, blistering, c.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

You may perhaps be more interested to hear that I sprained my foot, and am just recovering from the effects of the accident by means of opodeldoc which I bought at the tinker's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference

By dint of abstinence and opodeldoc I passed a better night than I could have hoped for; but took up my lodging in the chapel room, as it is called, for going upstairs was impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

She rolled up my pantaloons and commenced bathing my knee with opodeldoc (a saponaceous camphorated liniment) that she used for such purposes; after which she bound it up nicely and then laid me down again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, Etc.] Reference

This reckless selfishness had further only resulted in giving "rheumatics" to that progenitor, who now required the external administration of opodeldoc to his limbs, and the internal administration of whiskey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flip, a California romance] Reference

"An attractive person," thought the counsellor of state as he made his way to his lodgings, where his servant was awaiting him with a glass of opodeldoc: "It's well I'm a steady fellow -- only, what was she laughing at?".    From Wordnik.com.  [A House of Gentlefolk] Reference

‘An attractive person, ’ thought the counsellor of state as he made his way to his lodgings, where his servant was awaiting him with a glass of opodeldoc: ‘It’s well I’m a steady fellow—only, what was she laughing at?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XL] Reference

The old woman obeyed his injunctions, except as to talking; and, while she placed the chairs and shook up the pillow, descanted on the sovereign virtues of some green oil and opodeldoc, which was as good as a charm for sprains and bruises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference

Soon after going on board, my master turned in; and as the captain and some of the passengers seemed to think this strange, and also questioned me respecting him, my master thought I had better get out the flannels and opodeldoc which we had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery iv, 111 p., ill.] Reference

“An attractive person,” thought the counsellor of state as he made his way to his lodgings, where his servant was awaiting him with a glass of opodeldoc: “It’s well.    From Wordnik.com.  [A House of Gentlefolk] Reference

Put some opodeldoc on it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poor Plutocrats] Reference

29. opodeldoc.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference

Some opodeldoc for Maksi! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poor Plutocrats] Reference

"Say, old man," he said, constrainedly, "ever try opodeldoc?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixes and Sevens] Reference

Farewell to home-made chairs, and home-made jeans, and the old back log, and the crane that swung in the kitchen fire-place, and to home-made baskets, and shuck collars, and shuck foot-mats, and dominicker chickens and oldfashioned cows, and castor oil, and paregoric, and opodeldoc, and salts, and sassafras tea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,] Reference

The Note Books tell us that, at North Adams in 1838, the author foregathered with a surgeon-dentist, who was also a preacher of the Baptist persuasion: and that, on the stage-coach between Worcester and Northampton, they took up an essence-vender who was peddling anise-seed, cloves, red-cedar, wormwood, opodeldoc, hair-oil, and Cologne water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman] Reference

Bunches of lead-pencils, steel-pens, pound-cakes of shaving-soap, gilt finger-rings, bracelets, clasps, and other jewelry, cards of pearl buttons, or steel ( "there is some steel about them, gentlemen, for my brother stole 'em, and I bore him out in it"), bundles of wooden combs, boxes of matches, suspenders, and, in short, everything, -- dipping his hand down into his wares with the promise of a wonderful lot, and producing, perhaps, a bottle of opodeldoc, and joining it with a lead-pencil, -- and when he had sold several things of the same kind, pretending huge surprise at finding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1] Reference