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More "Gargle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Eryximachus: I will speak in your turn, and do you speak in mine; and while I am speaking let me recommend you to hold your breath, and if after you have done so for some time the hiccough is no better, then gargle with a little water; and if it still continues, tickle your nose with something and sneeze; and if you sneeze once or twice, even the most violent hiccough is sure to go. I will do as you prescribe, said Aristophanes, and ...
— Symposium • Plato
... children. Great care too is to be observed, if anyone is standing over the child during a fit of coughing, that none of the membrane which it spits up enters the mouth; and, that if the child's breath is caught, the attendant gargle immediately with a teaspoonful of Condy's fluid in a tumbler ...
— The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases • Charles West, M.D.
... according to the mode of its application; * * * also been highly recommended in intermittent fevers, and though itself generally inadequate to the cure often proves serviceable as an adjunct to Peruvian bark or sulphate of quinia." Also used for typhous diseases, in dyspepsia, as a gargle for sore throat, as a mild stimulant in typhoid fevers, and to promote eruptions. The genus derives its scientific name from its supposed efficacy in promoting menstrual discharge, and some species have acquired the "reputation of antidotes ...
— The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees • James Mooney
... cases it may become necessary to remove dead bone and teeth, and the very dangerous form next described may sometimes follow it, it will be seen that it is a disease requiring skilled medical attention. The treatment consists in using, as a mouth wash and gargle, a solution of chlorate of potash (fifteen grains to the ounce) every two hours. Cases usually ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) • Various
... you a-drivin' at, mister?" he growled at last, after trying vainly to expectorate and compromising the effort in a husky gargle. ...
— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy
... McCabe!" says she, in that gushy, up and down tone, like she was usin' language as some sort of throat gargle. "How perfectly dear of you to ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... the original notes Of the chorus as sung by your Majesty's choir With a few pints of lava to gargle the throats Of myself and some others who sing it ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... Kittridge to her pastor, as they were seated at the tea-table, "told me that she wished when you were going home that you would call in to see Mary Jane; she couldn't come out to the funeral on account of a dreffle sore throat. I was tellin' on her to gargle it with blackberry-root tea—don't you think that is a good ...
— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... type of typhoid. Although we had been inoculated, we were obliged to gargle several times during the day, and even then we always had more or less of ...
— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp
... oakum taste in my mouth?" sputtered young Holmes. "Bosh! I'd sooner have a good gargle than be ...
— The Grammar School Boys of Gridley - or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving • H. Irving Hancock
... impossibility! Richardson would have given his "Clarissa," and Rousseau his "Heloise" to have imagined it. A fresh source of the pathetic bursts out before us, and not a bitter one. If your Germans can show us anything comparable to what I have transcribed, I would almost undergo a year's gargle of their language for it. The ...
— Books for Children - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 3 • Charles and Mary Lamb
... Gang bando. Ganglion ganglio. Gangrene gangreno. Gaol malliberejo. Gaoler gardisto. Gap brecxo. Gap manko. Gape oscedegi. Garb vesto. Garden gxardeno. Gardener gxardenisto. Gardenia gardenio. Gardening gxardenlaborado. Gargle gargari. Gargle gargarajxo. Garland girlando. Garlic ajlo. Garment vesto. Garner provizi. Garnish ornami. Garniture garnituro. Garret subtegmento. Garrison garnizono. Garrote cxirkauxligi. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... to," said the red-headed boy, as he took off his string of feathers, and gave a yell, hitting his lips with the back of his hand so it would "gargle," "and the fire is out. We put some kerosene on an empty beer case, that was all." So Uncle Ike handed over the dollar, and was released, while a boy who had washed his paint off was sent to a grocery after ...
— Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy - 1899 • George W. Peck
... the names of the five daughters of the Old Person of China, and what was the purpose for which the Old Man of the Dargle purchased six barrels of Gargle? ...
— Nonsense Books • Edward Lear
... the bile is also yellow. Nevertheless, Gerard says: "A decoction of the leaves is good for them that have naughty livers." By pouring a pint of boiling water on a handful of the plant—stems, flowers and leaves—an [19] excellent gargle may be made for a relaxed throat; and a teacupful of the same infusion may be taken cold three or four times in the day for simple looseness of the bowels; also for passive losses of blood. In France, Agrimony tea is drank as a beverage ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
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