When people went out they wore gauze masks over their nose and mouth, often soaked in camphor or other medicinal substances. From Wordnik.com. [A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Worldwide flu pandemic strikes] Reference
From Borney they bring camphor, which is the best which is usually found. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference
Many of them smell strongly of camphor, which is sometimes extracted from them. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
It furnishes a liquid called camphor oil and a crystalline solid known as Sumatra or Borneo camphor. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference
Botanicals, such as camphor, are derived from plant sources. From Wordnik.com. [AP Environmental Science Chapter 16- Air, Water and Soils] Reference
Joanne, who won among sixth-graders last year, said she took a guess spelling "camphor" to advance to the final round. From Wordnik.com. [The Herald-Mail Online] Reference
It is said to produce camphor, which is not found to the southward of the equinoctial line; and also verzino, or red-wood (though. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
146 The word camphor derives from Arabic kafur, as in Qur’án 76: 5. From Wordnik.com. [Bahíyyih Khánum] Reference
His uniform sleeps in some chest, preserved in camphor. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
= — Take one ounce of oil ammoniac, four drams of camphor. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
The breath of his lip is like the odour of myrrh and camphor. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
It may be made by the action of iodine on oil of caraway or on camphor. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Another patient, a girl, I rubbed over with warm oil, camphor, and spirits of wine. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
Then wash with castile soap, and rub into the roots, bay rum, brandy or camphor water. 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
= — Sulphate of copper, fifteen grains; camphor, four grains; boiling water, four ounces. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Take of ammoniated tinc. of quack 1/2 oz., honey 1/2 oz., camphor water 6 oz., mix and cork. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
"What's that?" asked Ed. "They had camphor and some other stuff in their gas," went on Paul. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
In the morning, the mustard and camphor smells of the poultice hung on his skin. From Wordnik.com. [Old Egg] Reference
The lamp should not be quite full, and the camphor may be left to float upon the surface of the water. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
The camphor will form into lumps after being dissolved, but the water will be sufficiently impregnated. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Here Sindbad found the camphor trees, "under each of which trees a hundred men might shade themselves.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
He provided his army surgeons with small vials containing a decoction of wormwood, camomile, and camphor. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
The forests contain more than four hundred kinds of trees -- among them teak, ebony, camphor, and even good pine. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Any hard steel tool will cut glass with great facility when kept freely wet with camphor dissolved in turpentine. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
Pack in bags of Canton flannel before putting into the drawers or boxes and place with them a few pieces of camphor gum. From Wordnik.com. [Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest] Reference
Take of iodide of mercury 2 parts, iodide of potassium 3 parts, camphor 2 parts, lard 32 parts; mix and keep well corked. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Her head was tied up in a medley of cloths and smelled loud of turpentine, camphor, and a lingering bouquet of assafoetida. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
= — Take equal parts of camphor, sulphuric ether, ammonia, laudanum, tincture of cayenne, and one-eighth part oil of cloves. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Take a pound of prepared chalk, and with this mix two drams of camphor very finely powdered, and moisten with spirits of wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
= — Take two drams of borax, one dram of Roman alum, one dram of camphor, half an ounce of sugar candy, one pound of ox-gall. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Spirits of camphor ten parts and turpentine two parts, applied daily, are useful in relieving the soreness of rheumatic muscles. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
In horses the regions of the mane and tail should be washed with soap, or rubbed with alcohol and spirits of camphor, equal parts. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
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