How To Use Mandragora In A Sentence
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But at least the play gives us the chance to hear fine lines and scrunchy words such as 'mandragora'.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also identified certain plants with pharmacological action such as mandragora or nightshade, opium and henbane and gives various recipes for inducing both anesthesia and analgesia before surgery.
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Among the plants and herbs that were sacred to Hecate was the mandragora or mandrake.
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Not poppy nor mandragora will ever medicine this bitter feud! ...
The Woodlanders
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Radix mandragora ebibitae, Annuli ex ungulis Asini, Stercus amatae sub cervical positum, illa nesciente, &c., quum odorem foeditatis sentit, amor solvitur.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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(variously transliterated _doudou_ or _didi_), which Brugsch [366] and his followers interpreted as "mandragora," is now believed to have another meaning.
The Evolution of the Dragon
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The treatment consists generally in ointments and collyria in abundance, but in fistula lachrymalis incision and tents of alder-pith, mandragora (_malum terrae_), briony, gentian, etc., are recommended, and entropion is referred directly to the surgeon.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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Also, from the leaves of mandragora, a concoction is produced which can be given to those who have need for amputation.
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Perhaps the most plausible suggestion that has been made as to the derivation of the word "mandragora" is Delâtre's claim [395] that it is compounded of the words _mandros_, "sleep," and _agora_, "object or substance," and that mandragora means "the sleep-producing substance".
The Evolution of the Dragon
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Mandragora caulescens issued after the blisters, and back to the original water should be the previous right into the soup, otherwise parameters after cooking brittle hard, shrink.
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Asked, in what place this mandrake was, and what she had heard of it? she said that she had heard that it grew under the tree of which mention has been made, but did not know the place; she said also that she had heard that above the mandragora was a hazel tree.
Jeanne d'Arc
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There were attempts at anesthesia to reduce pain: sponges were impregnated with opium or mandragora and placed in the mouth or nose.
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Cleopatra asks Charmian for mandragora to pass the time while she waits for Antony to come back.
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Last summer at The Yard, an arts colony devoted entirely to dance, he spent a month making Mandragora Vulgaris, a work based on the medieval legend of the mandrake root.
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A confirmation of this appears from considering the things which induce sleep; they all, whether potable or edible, for instance poppy, mandragora, wine, darnel, produce a heaviness in the head; and persons borne down [by sleepiness] and nodding
On Sleep and Sleeplessness
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The mandragora is a wild plant, the like of which does not exist.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
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The treatment consists generally in ointments and collyria in abundance, but in fistula lachrymalis incision and tents of alder-pith, mandragora (_malum terrae_), briony, gentian, etc., are recommended, and entropion is referred directly to the surgeon.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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The treatment consists generally in ointments and collyria in abundance, but in fistula lachrymalis incision and tents of alder-pith, mandragora (_malum terrae_), briony, gentian, etc., are recommended, and entropion is referred directly to the surgeon.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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So have many besides: and poppy and mandragora will never medicine them to the sweet sleep they tasted yesterday.
The Virginians
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In most books on Egyptian mythology the word (_d'd'_) for the substance put into the drink to colour it is translated "mandragora," from its resemblance to the Hebrew word
The Evolution of the Dragon
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As a rule, the fistula is dilated by a tent of alder-pith, mandragora, briony or gentian, the lining membrane destroyed by an ointment of quick-lime or even the actual cautery, and the wound then dressed with egg-albumen followed by the _unguentum viride_.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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He also identified certain plants with pharmacological action such as mandragora or nightshade, opium and henbane and gave various recipes for inducing both anesthesia and analgesia before surgery.
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Against the thought of her, three doors away, it would have taken a lorryload of mandragora to knock me out.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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Here's Cleopatra calling out ‘give me mandragora, that I might sleep’.