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“I don’t have your potion yet. Astringents take more time. Mama says it will be done later.”

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

If there be any considerable Vessels at the Root, they may be bound, or else cut; and the Blood may be stopt with Astringents.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

Astringents, such as the acetate of lead, are not curative; but the following ointment has done so much good in these cases that I can most confidently submit it to the public:— Camphor Two drachms.

From The Dog by Dinks

All Astringents that are not Causticks, are proper for the Syringe.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

In the mean while Aromaticks, Resolutives, and moderate Astringents may be apply'd outwardly.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel