vapours
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In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, women in bad humor were said to be afflicted by the spleen, or the vapours of the spleen.
Holland (1933) suggested that the stone was hollow to allow intoxicating vapours breathed by the Oracle to channel through it.
“Officials are using inhibitors to neutralise the vapours.
Heat transfer from the combustion to the solid maintains the evolution of flammable vapours.
In addition, exposure to the vapours gave match workers a severe necrosis of the bones of the jaw, the infamous " phossy jaw ".
Intoxicated by the vapours, the sibyl would fall into a trance, allowing Apollo to possess her spirit.