1850 examples of specifics in sentences

From universal remedies or panaceas, to nostrums and specifics, such, for instance, as pretend to cure the same disease in every patient, is easy and natural.

In those diseases, which in every instance depend upon the same cause, as in agues, the small-pox, measles, and many other contagious distempers, the possibility of specifics, in a limited sense, may be rationally, though hypothetically admitted.

Besides, all these boasted specifics have been found to be either inert, ineffectual, or dangerous, and every pretender to them, in times less enlightened by the general march of intellect, has been convicted either of gross ignorance or dishonesty.

" Turning to some of the numerous plants which on the doctrine of signatures were formerly used as specifics from a fancied resemblance, in the shape of the root, leaf, or fruit, to any particular part of the human body, we are confronted with a list adapted for most of the ills to which the flesh is heir.

Last, not least, I resolved on taking the whole charge of your education, Katy; and of my various specifics, I think I would recommend the training of such an elf as the 'sovereignest remedy' for first love.

Only there were rather too many specifics in those days.

The list of specifics has been reduced to a very brief catalogue, and the delusion which had exaggerated the power of drugging for so many generations has been tempered down by sound and systematic observation.

The projects of Don Custodio were as renowned as quacks' specifics.

There were forty or fifty kinds of simples and curiosities, cure-alls, and specifics.

It possessed neither of these specifics.

Do they damage her specific excellence?

On the contrary, he is assured that there are not one or two but many specifics for the bite of every kind of snake, known to those whose business it is to know them.

Failing in this, specifics of all sorts were eagerly sought for and tried, and are unfortunately still believed in to a very great extent.

One set believes in wholesome ways of living, and another must have a great list of specifics for all the soul's complaints.

Congress has no right under the Constitution to take money from the people unless it is required to execute some one of the specific powers intrusted to the Government; and if they raise more than is necessary for such purposes, it is an abuse of the power of taxation, and unjust and oppressive.

The first article of the Constitution specifics the legislative powers committed to Congress.

Specific precepts of the Mosaic law enforcing general principles.

The first article of the Constitution specifics the legislative powers committed to Congress.

Is it yielding to an individual preference too far, to say, that there seems almost a generic difference between these three and any others,however wide be the specific differences among themselves,to say that, after all, they in their several paths have attained to an habitual intimacy with Nature, and the rest have not?

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Thus we find particular wines recommended by particular doctors, having a fashionable run as specifics:at one time all the gouty people were drinking Madeira; and many a man persuaded himself he had a fit of flying gout, for the sake of the remedy.

But they overflow with the best specifics of the healing art, shrewdness, independence, nice observation; they have a woman's kindness and a man's sturdiness.

Of the specific sounds given to the letters, he says, "The first of these matters is under the rule of every body, and therefore is very properly to be excluded from the discussions of that philosophy which desires to be effectual in its instruction.

It would be superfluous to point out in detail how admirably these measures are calculated to arrest the ravages of disease; but for the sake of those, if there are any, to whom the medicinal effect of crawling through a hole on hands and knees is not at once apparent, I shall merely say that the procedure in question is one of the most powerful specifics which the wit of man has devised for maladies of all sorts.

"It is an ointment," she said,"one of old Brigida's" (a witch who lived on the cliffs and concocted wondrous specifics from herbs).

1850 examples of  specifics  in sentences