Ptisan. A diluent drink which makes a great figure in the dietetic precepts of the ancients.
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Tisane
//tɪˈzæn//
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Towards the end of the week the girls complained of violent headaches and restless nights; and before Monday it was very obvious that they were all in a high fever. Tuesday Isabella was delirious, and Mademoiselle Virginie sent the maid to Covent Garden to buy some herbs, which, she said, would form a sovereign tisane.
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“Neither,” said Poirot, “I shall go to bed and take a tisane. The expected has happened […].”
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The sick people would take away also some herbs for their ptisan, some wine and other comforts […].
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