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Date Posted: Mon, February 21 2022, 4:38:46
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Monday,February 21, 2022 - Hope no one is suffering from confined bowels today.

The following quotation is from The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2011 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 14 Fridstool


It was an elderly Anglican nun who’d told him what a fridstool was, just last year. Sister Eudoxia was a distant connection of Lady Dunsany’s, who’d come to Helwater to recuperate from what Cook said was dropsical dispersion.

Glimpsing Sister Eudoxia sitting in a wicker elbow chair on the lawn, wrinkled eyelids closed against the sun like a lizard’s, he’d wondered what Claire would have said of the lady’s condition. She wouldn’t have called it a dropsical dispersion, he supposed, and smiled involuntarily at the thought, recalling his wife’s outspokenness on the matter of such complaints as iliac passions, confined bowels, or what one practitioner called “the universal relaxation of the solids.”

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[> Not suffering today but last week. Well that's a story for another day -- LadyDuBois, Mon, February 21 2022, 5:29:44


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[> [> Got DH eating oatmeal (it’s a struggle and a very small portion) and the local apple orchard’s cider - problem solved and Bob’s your uncle! First time I ever used it - the 💩 emoji. lol -- Kathy in PA, Mon, February 21 2022, 6:41:46


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[> [> [> I love apple cider....but it certainly "moves" me....luckily the local farmers market sells in in 1 pint containers! -- Janet, Mon, February 21 2022, 10:28:45


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