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"Steams side vegetables but sometimes adds...sour cream" 35.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hence the Bleedings, the softening and diluting Drinks, the Steams, the Glysters, the Potion Nº.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Steams of camphor, of sandal wood, arose from the hold.

From Prue and I by Curtis, George William

In such Cases we must chiefly persist in the Gargarisms and the Steams; and where an experienced and dexterous Surgeon can be procured, it were proper he should scarify the inflamed Tonsils.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

As hot Fumes appear to be generally useless, so the Steams of Poisonous Minerals ought to be reckoned dangerous: and therefore I cannot but dissuade the use of all Fumigations with Mercury or Arsenic.

From A Discourse on the Plague by Mead, Richard