Crossword-Solution: EPSOMS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

But the Doctor proceeds--"By raising the temperature of my room to about 65°, a broth diet, and taking a tea-spoonful of Epsom salts in half a pint of warm water, and repeating it every half-hour till it moves the bowels twice or thrice, and retiring to rest an hour or two sooner than usual, I have often very speedily got rid of colds, &c." Why, there may be no great harm in acting as above; although we should far rather recommend a screed of the Epsoms.

Madam, I find you have discovered our design, whose chief end was to prevent this mischief, which I doubt not but you'll both live to repent your share of, before you have done travelling to the Epsoms, Bourbonne,[278] and the Spaws, to cure those travelled diseases these knights-errant have with curiosity sought out for you.

This rough Epsoms, or sulphate of magnesia, is the crystals thrown down by the mother-liquor after a second boiling.