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Youth and nursing and herb-tea were too strong for her, and the color came back to her cheek and the languor went out from her blue eyes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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I was reared in a large family in a country home, several miles from a physician, where all but the severest sicknesses were treated with herb-tea dosage, and this was true of all other country homes.
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey
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The sick man whose physician prescribed for him a quart of herb-tea as the only thing that would save him, and who replied that he was gone, then, for he held but a _pint_, was no Bavarian; for the most modest
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various
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They deprived me also of the means of making an herb-tea which my aunt made me take every morning for my health.
The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912
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As a love-charm; as an herb-tea brewed by crones to cure divers ailments, from loss of hair to the ague; as an inducement to nosebleed for the relief of congestive headache; as an ingredient of an especially intoxicating beer made by the Swedes, it is mentioned in old books.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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I knew he ought to take something hot of the herb-tea sort, and so started off and gathered a dipperful of the tea-plant leaves.
Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' 1887
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She insists on bringing the little patient her herb-tea herself.
Child Life In Town And Country 1909 Anatole France 1884
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I had bought her an immense cooking range, so that she could make soups and herb-tea for fifty men.
My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884
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You shall pass your old age in a big chair in the best room, and Camille and I will nurse your gout and make herb-tea for you. '
Grey Roses Henry Harland 1883
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The Compound Extract of Smart-weed should be administered in some diaphoretic herb-tea.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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