She's about seventy and skens like a basket of whelks, but she's as good as any doctor.

Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

By the first he was impowered to grant letters patents of denizenation to be made out, under the Great Seal , to such person or persons as should at any time sue to him for the same , without any other warrant

I sit back on my heels, lost among Mother's cardigans and zippered clothes bags.