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Olive Oil

in chemistry, Florence oil, or salad oil, a non-drying oil, extracted from the fruit of the olive by pressure. It has a pale yellow color with a tinge of green, a mild and agreeable taste. It is frequently adulterated with almond, nut, colza, cotton seed, and other oils. In pharmacy, it is used as a laxative; as an emollient ingredient in enemas; to envelop the poisonous particles in the stomach in cases of poisonstomach in cases of of poisoning; to relieve pruritus in skin diseases; and to protect the surface from the air in scalds and burns. burgh Gazette" and "Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph." He was elected to the United States Senate in 1909 to fill an unexpired term. In 1911 he was reelected for a term ending 1917. In 1904 and 1916 he was a delegate to the National Convention of the Republican party. He died in 1919.

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