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opodeldoc|ɒpəˈdɛldɒk|
Also 7 -toch, -doch, 8 -dock, opp-.
[Believed to be invented by Paracelsus; perh. containing Gr. ὀπο- vegetable juice.]
†1. orig. The name given in the works of Paracelsus to medical plasters of various kinds. Obs.[a1541Paracelsus Chirurg. Min., De Apostem. xxiii. (1603) 90 Descriptio oppodeltoch. {jup}. De quatuor seminibus incarnatiuis ℥ f. Ceræ Colophoniæ ana ℥ ij. Picis naualis ℥ iij. Reduc in emplastrum. Ibid. xxxiii. 97 Descriptio oppodeltoch. {jup}. Colophoniæ lib.j. puluerum chelidoniæ, aranciarum ana ℥ iiij. Visci de botin, quantum satis est ad incorporationem.] 1656tr. Paracelsus' Dispens. 305 Now you must apply the Oppodeltoch Plaister. Ibid. 308 Then apply the Plaister Oppodeltoch. 1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. ii. vi. 62 In case the Wound doth not bleed..lay a Headplaister to it, after the manner of an Opodeldoch. 1733Alleyne Dispensatory, Emplastrum opodeldoc. [1857Mayne Expos. Lex., Opodeltoch, the name of a plaster..referred to by Paracelsus.] 2. Now applied to various kinds of soap liniment.
a. Commonly applied to that (Linimentum saponis) of the British Pharmocopœia. ‘The original opodeldoc of the Pharmacopœias was a soft ointment composed of soap 3 oz. dissolved in a pint of alcohol, and an ounce of camphor, with a drachm each of oils of origanum and rosemary added’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1892). This was the Unguentum opodeldoch of the Edinr. Pharmacop. of 1722. ‘In 1744 the Edinr. Unguentum took the name Balsamum saponaceum vulgo oppodeldoch; and in 1745 it appeared in the London Pharmacop. under the name Linimentum saponaceum. Of this preparation, the Linimentum Saponis of the present British Pharmacopœia is the lineal descendant’ (C.C.B. in N. & Q. (1902) 1 Mar. 166).
b. As described in Merchant Shipping Act 1867, a liniment composed of equal parts of soap liniment (as in a) and tincture of opium; liniment of opium.
c. Steer's opodeldoc, ‘a preparation composed of Castile soap, camphor, oils of marjoram and rosemary, rectified spirit, and solution of ammonia’ (Mayne).
[1650Chemical Dict. Paracelsus, Oppodeltoch in Paracelsus is an ointment.] 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. xii. §3 (1734) 243 Warm and active Oils and Ointments, especially the Opodeldoc. 1746Sir A. Westcomb in Mrs. Delany's Autobiog. & Corr. II. 440 Tell my aunt that I use oil of earthworms with opodeldoc to endeavour to dispel the lump. 1785J. Collier Mus. Trav. App. (ed. 4) 22 He rubbed it with opodeldock or arquebusade water. 1826Scott Jrnl. 25 Dec., By dint of abstinence and opodeldoc I passed a better night. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg., Bl. Mousquet., Her delicate fingers are charred With the Steer's opodeldoc, joint oil, and goulard. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. vi. (1871) 111 Leaving East better for those few words than all the opedeldoc in England would have made him. 1890Chambers's Encycl. VI. 644 Soap Liniment, or Opodeldoc, the constituents of which are soap, camphor, and spirits of rosemary. 1902C. C. B. in N. & Q. 9th Ser. IX. 166 Steers's Opodeldoc, a famous nostrum of the eighteenth century,..an imitation of the old Edinburgh Unguentum opodeldoch, with the addition of ammonia.
Hence opoˈdeldoc v., to treat with opodeldoc.
1797J. Warton in Wilkes' Corr. (1805) IV. 333, I was blooded, oppodeldoc'd, &c. and got home as I could. |