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Bills lie strewn on the mustard oilcloth, including letters from Empirical Medical Services and receipts from Grassy Sprain Pharmacy.
Maia in Yonkers 2007
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Bills lie strewn on the mustard oilcloth, including letters from Empirical Medical Services and receipts from Grassy Sprain Pharmacy.
Maia in Yonkers 2007
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Bills lie strewn on the mustard oilcloth, including letters from Empirical Medical Services and receipts from Grassy Sprain Pharmacy.
Maia in Yonkers 2007
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-Sprain my face as I try to keep from laughing while the Priest whips out a guitar and sings to Jesus.
Things that tick me off Dymphna 2007
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Sprain (strain) Bruising, stretching, or tearing of ligaments or tendons in a twisted joint.
Chapter 33 1993
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For a Sprain -- Salt and vinegar, bound on a sprain, will relieve the pain in a very little while.
Fowler's Household Helps Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps About the Home, Carefully Compiled and Arranged in Convenient Form for Frequent Use Arthur L. Fowler
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"_Railway spine_" -- Injuries of the vertebral column: _Sprain_;
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Sprain with or without rupture of the suspensory ligament may happen in either the fore or hind legs, and is occasionally seen in horses of all classes and at all ages.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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_ -- Sprain of the suspensory ligament, no matter how mild it may be, should always be treated by enforced rest of at least a month, and the application of cold douches and cold-water bandages, firmly applied until the fever has subsided, when a cantharides blister should be put on and repeated in two or three weeks if necessary.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Sprain of the fetlock joint is most common in the fore legs, and, as a rule, affects but one at a time.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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