rectified

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Rectified spirits may be used for mounting softened bone and tooth, and naphtha and creosote are useful for preserving urinary casts.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various

Bedsores are not likely to occur if the skin is sponged daily with water and this mild soap, and rubbed with Rectified Spirit of Wine, to which a small piece of camphor has been added.

From Papers on Health by Kirk, Edward Bruce

"Rectified lard; and so well, let me tell you, that no one could compete with him."

From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Cold water 0.20 " Alcohol 0.800 4.25 " Rectified spirit 0.838 3.20 " Ether 0.717 1.00 " Chloroform 1.49 0.20 " Benzene 0.40 " Petroleum ether insoluble.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 by Various

"The History of the Test Act: in which the Mistakes in some Writings against it are Rectified, and the Importance of it to the Church explained."

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Swift, Jonathan