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still have faith in the same old nostrums
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She has somehow found out about it, about the doctor and his nostrums and his prophecies — I suppose from his nurse, a chemical redhead with a mouth that flaps at both ends.† (source)
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Shelves of soap-cartons, teething-rings, garden-seeds, and patent medicines in yellow "packages-nostrums" for consumption, for "women's diseases"—notorious mixtures of opium and alcohol, in the very shop to which her husband sent patients for the filling of prescriptions.† (source)
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Finally, he had asked the patients as soon as he saw them, "Well, who has been cramming you with nostrums?† (source)
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You do realize that the ancient lands—and the Marc Nostrum—are dangerous?† (source)
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Why didn't we send the Italian fleet to the bottom of Mare Nostrum?† (source)
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Though, indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum has vulgarized the truism to the very point of contempt.† (source)
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Generally the village people went to Geillis Duncan for help, but there had been several patients from the village turning up of late in my dispensary, and the traffic in nostrums had been heavy.† (source)
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THE MEDITERRANEAN, your ideal blue sea: to Greeks simply "the sea," to Hebrews "the great sea," to Romans mare nostrum.† (source)
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If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.† (source)
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"~Dominum nostrum~," added Gossip Tourangeau, making the sign of the cross.† (source)
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Containing infallible nostrums for procuring universal disesteem and hatred.† (source)
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He more than intimated that it was at his option to concoct a liquid that should prolong life for years, perhaps interminably; but that it would produce a discord in Nature which all the world, and chiefly the quaffer of the immortal nostrum, would find cause to curse.† (source)
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He wasted time at Hunziker's nostrum factory all right, and his title is 'Doctor,' not 'Professor,' if you MUST give him a—† (source)
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They'll assume that we'll die in the Mediterranean—the Mare Nostrum.† (source)
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Once in the Mediterranean—the Mare Nostrum—they would be in the ancient lands.† (source)
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