bolus

But whatever $54 million antibiotic the bolus of cash might produce will itself become useless after a year or a decade.

Experience is the grand spiritual Doctor; and with him Teufelsdrockh has now been long a patient, swallowing many a bitter bolus.

Nor shall I tarry at the palace for the physician, but go straight on without bolus, simples or pills, a very Mercury for speed.

Ordered a bolus with rhubarb and calomel, to be taken in the morning, and ℥ii.

Nature, tenderest of leeches,—no bolus of hers is pleasanter medicament than her ruddy strawberries.

As she had often done in her late illness, Zenobia opened her mouth at the word of command, and swallowed the infernal bolus.