hartshorn
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The second night, I applied a liberal dose of white liniment—Uncle Holt’s own concoction of hartshorn, arnica, witch hazel, camphor gum, eggs, and cider vinegar.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Bring a cushion out of the drawing-room, Edith, my love, and ask Baba for the hartshorn drops.
From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
A little cold water, or hartshorn, would have restored them to consciousness; and their sorrows would in time have become subdued.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Beach, Charles A.
Jews with faces white from exhaustion sat in the anteroom resting and refreshing themselves with a pinch of snuff, or a drop of hartshorn, and a few words of conversation.
From Yiddish Tales by Various
By diluting it with water it becomes the spirits of hartshorn, or ammonia water.
From Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 by Various