vital fluid

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Chris Young, the theater’s properties director, mixes a unique version of the vital fluid for every gory scene in every show.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2017

They swallowed their pride and ran campaigns to collect the blood he needed, pleading with friends, relatives and even strangers for donations of the vital fluid.

From Time Magazine Archive

In most cases, as with these epidemics and contagions, a specific germ is introduced into the blood and multiplies, feeding on the vital fluid.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

Then came the great "humoral" or "vital fluid" theory of disease which ruled during the Middle Ages.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods

Cords of silk were attached all round with nooses, each for a patient's neck, and by these cords the vital fluid was to circulate to the patient and back again.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis