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  2. Flying ointment - Wikipedia

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    In the book Calling on Dragons (Book three of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles), the witch Morwen uses a flying potion on a straw basket and a broomstick, not on herself. In E. L. Konigsburg's Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, two characters try to make a flying ointment.

  3. 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]

  4. Topical drug delivery - Wikipedia

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    In these ancient cities, topical medications like ointments and potions were used on the skin. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The delivery of topical drugs needs to pass through multiple skin layers and undergo pharmacokinetics , hence factor like dermal diseases minimize the bioavailability of the topical drugs. [ 5 ]

  5. This Family Drives 350 Miles For What Could Be A Common ...

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    Fischer and his mother view these monthly trips as a chance to make up for lost time. Anderson gave birth to him 15 years after her first-born son and a decade after her daughter. He was a smart, athletic boy — a member of the swim team — but he became a handful after she divorced his father.

  6. Love potion - Wikipedia

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    A love potion (poculum amatorium) [1] is a magical liquid which supposedly causes the drinker to develop feelings of love towards the person who served it. Another common term to describe the potion, philtre , is thought to have originated from the ancient Greek term philtron (' love charm'), via the French word philtre .

  7. I Shall Survive Using Potions! - Wikipedia

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    I Shall Survive Using Potions! ( Japanese : ポーション頼みで生き延びます! , Hepburn : Pōshon-danomi de Ikinobimasu! ) is a Japanese light novel series written by FUNA.

  8. Human interactions with insects - Wikipedia

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    The "Spanish fly", Lytta vesicatoria, has been considered to have medicinal, aphrodisiac, and other properties. Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests.

  9. Category:Films about potions - Wikipedia

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    Films about potions, liquids "that contain medicine, poison, or something that is supposed to have magic powers." Throughout history there have been several types of potions for a range of purposes. Reasons for taking potions ranged from curing an illness, to securing immortality to trying to induce love. These potions, while often ineffective ...