"Castor oil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Palastris Forget-Me-Not, Nasturtium (Dwarf Mixed, Tall Mixed), Pansy Very Large Flowering Mixed, Petunia Mixed Hybrid, Phlox Drummond Grandiflori Mixed, Poppy Carnation Double Mixed, Portulaca Single Mixed, Ricinus Sanguineus (Castor Oil Bean), Salpiglossis Large Mixed, Scabiosa Majus Dwarf Mixed, Smilax Boston, Stock German Dwarf Mixed, Sunflower Double Globosus Fislutosus, Swan River Daisy, Sweet William (double), Thunbergia Mixed, Verbenas Hybrid Mixed, Wild Cucumber, Quinnia Double Dwarf Mixed, Sunflower ...
— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis
... complexion, fat, and strong; rather tall, and altogether she was a fine powerful-looking woman, but decidedly not pretty; her hair was elaborately dressed in hundreds of long narrow curls, so thickly smeared with castor oil that the grease had covered her naked shoulders; in addition to this, as she had been recently under the hands of the hairdresser, there was an amount of fat and other nastiness upon her head that gave her the appearance ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker
... ignorance of the seat of a disorder, it were better, says this writer, to assign it at once to the pancreas or pineal gland. A lady once asked her apothecary, an ignorant fellow, regarding the composition of castor oil, and seemed quite content with his reply, that it was extracted from the beaver. Another patient asked her physician how long she was likely to be ill, and was told that it depended largely on the duration of the disease. A certain doctor, ...
— Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery • Robert Means Lawrence |
