flowers of sulphur


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flowers of sulphur

pl n
(Chemistry) minute crystals of sulphur obtained by condensing sulphur vapour on a cold surface
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We know diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind; you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
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Cut away portions that have rotted and dust the cuts with flowers of sulphur.
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Sulphur supplement was provided as flowers of sulphur, selenium as sodium selenite and copper as copper sulphate.
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