[10] The magical slumbers produced in the cave of Trophonius are justly ascribed to medicated beverages.

But medicated or not, all amulets are precarious and uncertain, and in the cure of diseases are, by no means, to be trusted to.

Galen speaks seriously of playing the flute on the suffering part, upon the principle, we suppose, of a medicated vapour bath.

Pa turned the cock of the extinguisher, and pointed the nozzle at Bolivar's head, and began to squirt the medicated water all over him.

[Footnote 47: These medicated draughts are often mentioned in Romances.

Physicians use medicated ointments in this way, when they wish to secure prompt and efficient results.

Of the folly of wetting the head with spirits, or any other medicated lotions, and of making daily efforts to bring it into shape, it is unnecessary to speak in the present chapter.

There are other forms of bathing besides those already mentioned; among which are the shower bath, the vapor bath, and the medicated bath.

The medicated vapor bath is sometimes used; but I am not now treating of infants who are sick, but of those who are in a state of health.

The common warm bath is sometimes medicated by putting in salt.

The story of Æson becoming young, from the medicated bath of Medea, seems to have been intended to teach the efficacy of warm bathing in retarding the progress of old age.

Its high counters, which once held sandwiches and tarts and wine bottles, were piled with snowdrifts of medicated cotton and rolls of lint and buckets of antiseptic washes and drug vials.

Examples: To plaster medicated oils or ointments all over the skin of a dog suffering from constitutional eczema is about as sensible as would be the painting white of the yellow skin in jaundice in order to cure the disordered liver.

Washing with Spratts' medicated soap.

He then produced a bottle of medicated canary, and pouring out a large glass for the apprentice, drained another himself.

Usually resorted to on account of its warmth-retaining properties, the poultice may also be medicated.

The poultice should be medicated with any reliable disinfectant, and should be renewed, or at any rate reheated, two or three times daily.

A further portion of the medicated tow is then pushed partially into the wound, and allowed to remain in position.

The softness of my hands was secured by medicated gloves, and my bosom rubbed with a pomade prepared by my mother, of virtue to discuss pimples, and clear discolorations.

The antidotes with which philosophy has medicated the cup of life, though they cannot give it salubrity and sweetness, have at least allayed its bitterness, and contempered its malignity; the balm which she drops upon the wounds of the mind abates their pain, though it cannot heal them.

BATHS, cold, i. 91, n. 1; medicated, ii. 99.

Those whose fancy rested upon medicated liqueurs found them in every variety.

L.Wormwood is a strong bitter; and was formerly much used as such against weakness of the stomach, and the like, in medicated wines and ales.

They are also employed in medicated baths and fomentations.

"Is it medicated?"