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  • Davie storing singular treasures in a box in the garret -- seed-pods which rattled when you shook them; scarlet wood-berries, gay and likely to please; a tin whistle, a rubber ball, a doll with joints, and a folded paper having written on it, "For Croup a poultis of onions and heeting the feet"; and Davie, his importance dropped from him as a garment, coming to put his head down against her shoulder.

    Life at High Tide Henry Mills Alden 1877

  • For this poultis fucks or draws all the foul matter or ftag - nated fluids but of all the adjoining parts; for thefe muft have vent that way, there is no turning them back, or diverting their cpurfe to any other point.

    A new system of husbandry 1770

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