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Decoction

noun
1.
(pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling.



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"Decoction" Quotes from Famous Books



... dishes we Americans—people, as the French say, "of one sauce"—might well learn a lesson from the example of the English matron who usually considers her kitchen incomplete without a dozen or more sweet herbs, either powdered, or in decoction, or preserved in both ways. A glance into a French or a German culinary department would probably show more than a score; but a careful search in an American kitchen would rarely reveal as many as half a dozen, and in the ...
— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains

... contents of the bowl were found to consist principally of a decoction of the root of the May-apple, the most deadly ...
— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie

... pint and a half of water. Tannopin is a new remedy that is most useful in such cases. The dose is from 30 grains to 2 drams. Useful household remedies are raw eggs, strong coffee, parched rye flour, or decoction of oak bark. In all cases the food must be given sparingly, and it should be carefully selected to insure good quality. Complete rest in a box stall is desirable. When diarrhea is a symptom of a malady characterized ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... her throat] This incident, as Mr. Collier observes (HIST. OF ENG. DRAM. POET., iii. 119) is borrowed from Ariosto's ORLANDO FURIOSO, B. xxix, "where Isabella, to save herself from the lawless passion of Rodomont, anoints her neck with a decoction of herbs, which she pretends will render it invulnerable: she then presents her throat to the Pagan, who, believing her assertion, aims a blow and ...
— Tamburlaine the Great, Part II. • Christopher Marlowe

... Smith was holding. Her eyes were closed, and her teeth clinched like those of a person in a fit. There was not a vestige of any color in her face, while her garments appeared as though they had experienced rough usage, and were torn in a dozen different places. In spite of the strong decoction which Smith had poured down her throat, she did not revive, or appear to comprehend what was said to her; and after rubbing her hands for a while, and finding that it did no good, I devoted a few moments to an examination of the ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes


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