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- adjective Same as
seidlitz .
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Examples
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I remained loanly at home took two doaces sedlitz powders which did not opperate well. drank brandy Tody which did not encourage it.
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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When he did it, all the little words inside of me began to foam and fizzle like sedlitz; out they came, biting, in mouthfuls, and streams, and squirts, backwards, sideways, and through my nose.
Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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"Take a sedlitz powder and become a philosopher," Dennison suggested.
Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904
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Fabroni, to whom I referred some time ago, imagined that the effervescence of fermentation was produced in just the same way as the effervescence of a sedlitz powder, that the yeast was a kind of acid, and that the sugar was a combination of carbonic acid and some base to form the alcohol, and that the yeast combined with this substance, and set free the carbonic acid; just as when you add carbonate of soda to acid you turn out the carbonic acid.
Essays 2007
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Fabroni, to whom I referred some time ago, imagined that the effervescence of fermentation was produced in just the same way as the effervescence of a sedlitz powder, that the yeast was a kind of acid, and that the sugar was a combination of carbonic acid and some base to form the alcohol, and that the yeast combined with this substance, and set free the carbonic acid; just as when you add carbonate of soda to acid you turn out the carbonic acid.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Fabroni, to whom I referred some time ago, imagined that the effervescence of fermentation was produced in just the same way as the effervescence of a sedlitz powder, that the yeast was a kind of acid, and that the sugar was a combination of carbonic acid and some base to form the alcohol, and that the yeast combined with this substance, and set free the carbonic acid; just as when you add carbonate of soda to acid you turn out the carbonic acid.
Yeast Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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What you want, old chap, is a sedlitz powder; go and have one, and you won't be so gloomy, you may even smile when you see our eight bumped to-night. "
Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904
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