| In small doses it serves as a stimulant for the entire digestive tract, associating it with bitter tonics, or other restoratives. |
| He would feel her pulse, chafe her wrists, apply restoratives and smelling salts, burn feathers under her nose. |
| These dishes, many deriving from recipes such as the possets of 16th-century England, have a long history as restoratives. |
| The prisoner was cut down, restoratives were applied and he recovered, to be known forever more as Half-Hanged Smith. |
| As professional sportsmen united in grief they recognised that winning is one of the best restoratives. |
| Benedictine and Chartreuse orders still consume these restoratives for digestive and muscular problems. |
