Crossword-Solution: UVULAS 6 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

From such trifles as uvulas and tonsils they went on to ovaries and appendices until at last no one's inside was safe.

Tonsils, vermiform appendices, uvulas, even ovaries are sacrificed because it is the fashion to get them cut out, and because the operations are highly profitable.

The father used to snip off the ends of people's uvulas for fifty guineas, and paint throats with caustic every day for a year at two guineas a time.

You know it, perhaps? "Why do I sing? There is no reason why I should continue: This image of the essential bin is better Than the irritated uvulas of modern poets.

They had also a drink made of a hundred herbs, and hence called _centum herbæ_, a _bebida de cien herbas_, which, like Morison’s vegetable pills, cured every possible disease, and was so palatable that it was drunk at banquets, which modern physic is not; moreover, according to Pliny, they cured the gout with flour, and relieved elongated uvulas by hanging purslain round the patient’s throat.