| 单词 | female pill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfemale pill female pill n. (a) a medicinal preparation intended specifically for the use of women, either to treat menstrual or other disorders, or as an abortifacient (usually in plural; now chiefly historical); (b) a contraceptive pill for women (contrasted with male pill). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > obstetric drug > [noun] > abortive drug abortive1647 amblotic1706 female pillc1743 abortifacient1857 c1743 (broadsheet) Dr. John Hooper's female pills. 1847 Lancet 20 Mar. 316/2 The author of this infamous bill is the proprietor of sundry nostrums in the shape of worm balsams, royal antiscorbutic drops, female pills, drops for young or old age..and cures for itch, &c. 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 27/1 Female Pills... If the very complete directions..will be followed closely, all will be well... With useful information and instructions to ladies concerning their troubles. 1905 Lancet 18 Nov. 1497/1 Madame Hipolite's world-renowned Female Pills, the safest and surest. 1971 New Scientist 4 Feb. 227/1 The new male pill is simply a combination of mesterelone with some orally active progestagen (also found in a female pill). 1998 C. Mims When we Die (1999) iii. 64 The poor had to rely on unofficial practitioners [of abortion] like Dickens's Mrs Gamp, or on Widow Welch's Female Pills, lead plaster, nutmeg, the gin and gunpowder remedy, and other quack ‘remedies.’ 2002 Indiana (Pa.) Gaz. 26 Nov. 11/2 The UW researchers plan to recruit about 50 men to test a tablet that, like the female pill.., uses hormones to trick the body. < as lemmas |
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