barley-water

Such a person cannot escape, unless critical sweats and gentle sleep supervene, and thick and acrid urine be passed, or the disease terminate in an abscess: give pine-fruit and myrrh in a linctus, and further give a very little oxymel to drink; but if they are very thirsty, some barley-water.

On Regimen In Acute Diseases 2007

The two doctors were for keeping him on gruel, lemonade, barley-water, and so on.

The Moonstone 2003

Charles, fearing that she would faint, ran to the refreshment-room to get a glass of barley-water.

Madame Bovary 2003

Several types are made into various barley-water drinks, most of them nonalcoholic.

13. Other Cultivated Grains 1996

This condition was attributed to his fatigues and exposure in a hard climate, and to his habit of drinking warm barley-water in the morning.

Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

In the royal kitchen the cook was bending over his fires, while an assistant mixed a beverage of barley-water, yolks of eggs and senna wine for Charles when he should become aroused.

Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

Christian cowboys still do so at times unless they have acquired grace and the barley-water habit.

Pan-Islam

Another means of relieving habitual colic is the use of partially peptonized milk (page 115); still another the dilution with barley-water instead of plain water.

The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses L. Emmett Holt

At night he can take barley-water, with juice of sorrel and of waterlilies, of each two ounces, with four or five grains of opium, and the four cold seeds crushed, of each half an ounce; which is a good nourishing remedy and will make him sleep.

The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

_ -- An emetic of apomorphine; demulcent drinks, such as barley-water, white of egg and water, linseed-tea and gruel (but not oils), with a hypodermic injection of morphine to allay pain.

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