Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary

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nutmeg
laudanum
medicament
hartshorn
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hartshorn

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Definition:
a substance originally obtained from hart's horn (deer antlers). Depending on the process it could be used for:

1) smelling salts
2) medicinally to treat diarrhea, insect bites, snakebites, and some other ailments
3) a leavening agent in baking (as baking powder is today)
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When Augustine, pale as death, was found lying on the sofa, and pleaded sudden sick-headache as the cause of his distress, she recommended to him to smell of hartshorn;

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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to cure the plague:
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.553 https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/553/mode/1up
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Some are cited who faint at the smell of burnt hartshorn, of new bread—

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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