embrocation

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The different liniments, and the favourite Roche's Embrocation, are of use when the disease is on the decline, and may also be of service if bronchitis should occur to complicate the hooping-cough, but not otherwise.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles

Mr. Orguly Bolp's large painting, entitled "Embrocation," is an interesting experiment in the handling of aplanatic surfaces, in which the toxic determinants are harmonized by a sort of plastic meiosis with syncopated rhythms.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Embrocation to be applied to the injured part.

From The Love Affairs of Pixie by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

"Embrocation is a very dear medicine, my good woman; it ought to be eighteen-pence, but as you are a poor woman, I shall only charge you nine-pence."

From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick

"Row's Embrocation, or arnica," the Captain was saying.

From Seven Little Australians by Turner, Ethel Sybil