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  2. Elixir of life - Wikipedia

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    Similarities have been noted with a folktale from the Ryukyu Islands, in which the moon god decides to give man the water of life (Miyako: sïlimizï), and serpents the water of death (sïnimizï). However, the person entrusted with carrying the pails down to Earth gets tired and takes a break, and a serpent bathes in the water of life ...

  3. I Shall Survive Using Potions! - Wikipedia

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    An orphan boy named Gum helps Kaoru at one point and he and his friends are given lots of food as a reward by Belle and Emil, who share their backstory with Kaoru. A soldier commander arrives to buy potions from Kaoru for his men and makes a deal with her. Gum is later hired to work at Kaoru's shop after being inspired by Belle and Emil.

  4. Panacea (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    A panacea (/ p æ n ə ˈ s iː ə /) is any supposed remedy that is claimed (for example) to cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely.Named after the Greek goddess of universal remedy Panacea, it was in the past sought by alchemists in connection with the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone, a mythical substance that would enable the transmutation of common metals into gold.

  5. Potion - Wikipedia

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    A bottle of colored liquid labelled as a love potion A collection of vials labelled as potions. A potion is a liquid "that contains medicine, poison, or something that is supposed to have magic powers." [1] It derives from the Latin word potio which refers to a drink or the act of drinking. [2]

  6. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    The player can make the worm kill everyone by suicide or, make the whole worship the worm thinking it is their god. Symptoms include insanity, mania, memory loss, coma, adoration, devotion, and transcendence (which causes the humans to worship the worm as their eternal god by overdosing them with oxytocin and vasopressin ).

  7. Liquid breathing - Wikipedia

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    Liquid breathing is a form of respiration in which a normally air-breathing organism breathes an oxygen-rich liquid which is capable of CO 2 gas exchange (such as a perfluorocarbon). [ 1 ] The liquid involved requires certain physical properties, such as respiratory gas solubility, density, viscosity, vapor pressure and lipid solubility, which ...

  8. Artificial gills (human) - Wikipedia

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    At least 37.5 liters (9.9 U.S. gal) of seawater per minute would have to be passed through the system, but this system would not work in anoxic water. Seawater in tropical regions with abundant plant life contains 6–8 mg (0.093–0.123 gr) of oxygen per liter of water. [4] These calculations are based on the dissolved oxygen content of water.

  9. Magician (fantasy) - Wikipedia

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    The Enchanted Garden of Messer Ansaldo by Marie Spartali Stillman (1889): A magician uses magic to survive. [1]A magician, also known as an archmage, mage, magus, magic-user, spellcaster, enchanter/enchantress, sorcerer/sorceress, warlock, witch, or wizard, is someone who uses or practices magic derived from supernatural, occult, or arcane sources.