[Crude mercury] may be concealed in a pill by rubbing it up with anything of which you can make a paste fit for pills;

Every Friday, Geoff and his group of friends all met at their favorite hangout to talk and have a good time.

To muster the strength for the final push in childbirth, midwives like Granny Lewis of Burlington, North Carolina, quilled the mother-to-be. With quilling the midwife placed the snuff on one end of the straw and blew it into the nostril of the woman at the right time; the great sneeze that resulted from the woman was accompanied by the birth of the child. Granny Lewis and others used quilling well into the 1930s (Kirby, p192).

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