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  2. John Brown's Body - Wikipedia

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    "John Brown's Body" (Roud 771), originally known as "John Brown's Song", is a United States marching song about the abolitionist John Brown. The song was popular in the Union during the American Civil War. The song arose out of the folk hymn tradition of the American camp meeting movement of the late 18th and early 19th century. According to an ...

  3. Paregoric - Wikipedia

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    Paregoric, or camphorated tincture of opium, also known as tinctura opii camphorata, is a traditional patent medicine known for its antidiarrheal, antitussive, and analgesic properties. According to Goodman and Gilman's 1965 edition, "Paregoric is a 4% opium tincture in which there is also benzoic acid, camphor, and anise oil. ... Paregoric by ...

  4. Camphor - Wikipedia

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    Camphor can also be synthetically produced from oil of turpentine. The compound is chiral , existing in two possible enantiomers as shown in the structural diagrams. The structure on the left is the naturally occurring (+)-camphor ((1 R ,4 R )-bornan-2-one), while its mirror image shown on the right is the (−)-camphor ((1 S ,4 S )-bornan-2-one).

  5. Eliodoro Mercado - Wikipedia

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    The "Mercado mixture," named after him, was a treatment for leprosy first developed in the Philippines. It consists of 60 cubic centimeters of chaulmoogra oil, camphorated oil, and 4 grams of resorcin. While it initially showed promise with a high recovery rate, according to Heiser in 1914, many patients experienced relapses.

  6. Oil in My Lamp - Wikipedia

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    "Oil in My Lamp", also known as "Give Me Oil in My Lamp" and "Sing Hosanna", is a Christian hymn based on the Parable of the Ten Virgins. The song has been recorded many times and was a hit in Jamaica in 1964 for Eric "Monty" Morris, [1] as well as appearing on The Byrds' 1969 album Ballad of Easy Rider, and also as a single (on the B side of Ballad of Easy Rider, Columbia 44990).

  7. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2015 August ...

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    What does it mean for the movie star to get burned? What is a three-way script? What does "enter number two" mean? In the literal sense. This (I suppose?) is what I get. There is a film, with three movie stars. There is a love triangle. The singer of the song gets "burned" (loses the affection of the female). Number two, the rival male, enters ...

  8. Taylor Swift’s ‘Robin’ lyrics: What does the song mean?

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    Among those 15 additional songs on the second part of “Tortured Poets” is a track called “Robin,” a piano ballad in which Swift draws imagery of animals and alludes to adolescence.

  9. It's a Mighty World - Wikipedia

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