Ladies seeking to preserve the sheen of youth spent a fortune on "paints" from China and lip salves from India.

WSJ: What Life Was Like in 1776

I'd spent innumerable hours, often in the middle of the night and in freezing temperatures, administering shots, pills, and salves.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Dog Days'

Few inspect the counters and jars filled with exotic salves and cures, from dried bats and lizards to caterpillar fungus.

ECONOMIST: Rising prices in even the most exotic products

Even an exit-row assignment barely salves the wound.

FORBES: Occupy This: Up in the Air

The story is straightforward enough: Benjamin (Michael Angarano), a lonely teen-ager being home-schooled by his poor single mother (Jennifer Coolidge) in a dome-shaped house somewhere west of the Rockies, salves his soul by writing and illustrating whacked-out science-fiction fantasies.

NEWYORKER: Gentlemen Broncos