单词 | alicant soap |
释义 | > as lemmasAlicant soap Alicant soap n. a hard white soap made from olive oil, produced in Alicante and used esp. during the 18th cent. in medicinal preparations administered internally for the treatment or kidney and bladder stones; cf. soap of Alicant n. at soap n.1 Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1659 Rich Closet Physical Secrets 53 in tr. L. Fioravanti Exact Coll. Exper. Physick & Chyrurg. (new ed.) For the yellow Jaundies... Rx. Alicant, or hard Spanish Sope, and a little stale Ale in a cup. 1750 H. Walpole Let. 21 Apr. in London Mag. (1752) Nov. 585/1 I began at first with taking every day half an ounce of Alicant soap, made into pills, with a syrup of marshmallows. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 171/1 White soda soap..in a less pure state,..is called Alicant, Venice, or Spanish soap. 1999 A.-H. Maehle Drugs on Trial ii. 79 Whytt recommended the combined intake of three pints of oyster or cockle shell lime-water with one ounce of Alicant soap because of the latter's additional..lithontriptic effect. < as lemmas |
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