vital fluid
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Chris Young, the theater’s properties director, mixes a unique version of the vital fluid for every gory scene in every show.
From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2017
They swallowed their pride and ran campaigns to collect the blood he needed, pleading with friends, relatives and even strangers for donations of the vital fluid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cords of silk were attached all round with nooses, each for a patient's neck, and by these cords the vital fluid was to circulate to the patient and back again.
From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
Up to this time the generally accepted theory was that of a vital fluid which permeated every thing and person and through which one person influenced another.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton
He'd finally decided it was almost inevitable; an exchange of vital fluid was an obvious symbol of kinship, and the wrist was an equally obvious place to draw blood, on a humanoid.
From Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel by Wilson, Ann
