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Medicine chest   /mˈɛdəsən tʃɛst/   Listen
Medicine chest

noun
1.
Cabinet that holds medicines and toiletries.  Synonym: medicine cabinet.






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"Medicine chest" Quotes from Famous Books



... surgeon and Dr. Carr had a narrow escape from being shot. While the former gentleman was entering the hospital he was fired at by one of the sentries. The ball passed close to the shoulder of Dr. Carr, who was reading inside, went through the lid of the open medicine chest, and some splinters struck him on the side. There were in the hospital at that time seven diggers seriously wounded and six soldiers, including the drummer boy. Troubles were coming in crowds, and the bullet, the splinters, and the Commission put the little doctor to flight. He ...
— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale

... he bawled some nonsense to our guest about bringing up his medicine chest and a rope, then turned back ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris

... my medicine chest, I brought along and administered a maximum dose of the oil called castor, and later dosed her with quinine. In the morning she was out and about her work, while the old mother was great in her praises for ...
— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle

... that Epicurean remedy for pain, as if they were taking it out of a medicine chest: "If it is bitter, it is of short duration; if it lasts a long time, it must be slight in degree." There is one thing which I do not understand, namely, how a man who is devoted to luxury can possibly have his appetites ...
— The Academic Questions • M. T. Cicero

... it is natural to cite the lines on "The Poetical Medicine Chest,"[66] which Mr. Stuart Reid has printed. They contain some excellent advice about the drugs which a mother should provide for the use of a young family, and ...
— Sydney Smith • George W. E. Russell

... sympathy left her no time to think of anything but the sufferer, who said to her pathetically, 'I shall not trouble you long!' She had not only the will but the power to help, even to supplying from her own medicine chest and stores, kept for the poor, everything ...
— Railway Adventures and Anecdotes - extending over more than fifty years • Various

... for him, for the professor had scarcely finished injecting Dick's leg than he turned his attention to the dead reptile, at which he had already cast many curious glances as it lay on his little camp-table beside his medicine chest. And now he proceeded to examine it thoroughly, lighting a powerful acetylene ...
— A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari - Seven Tales of South-West Africa • Frederick Cornell



Words linked to "Medicine chest" :   cabinet, medicine cabinet



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