| 单词 | jewish stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJewish stone Jewish stone n. now historical the spine of a fossil sea urchin, formerly used medicinally to treat disorders of the kidneys and bladder; = Jew's stone n. 1. ΚΠ 1580 T. Newton Approoued Med. f. 84 Lapis Iudaicus, The Iewishe stone. This stone grounde to powder, & drunke wyth Water, breaketh the stone in the Kidneis: and..the stone in the bladder. 1708 tr. J. P. de Tournefort Materia Medica ii. xxv. 130 Jewish Stone or Tecolith. It is a roundish Stone of the shape of an Olive, being an Inch long,..of a whitish or ash Colour... It is brought from Sicily and Judæa. 1851 W. H. Cobb tr. P. A. Cap in Western Jrnl. Med. & Surg. 7 383 They took internally..the Jewish stone (the spines of the fossil sea urchins, which they found in Palestine and employed as a remedy for strangury). 2013 W. D. I. Rolfe in C. J. Duffin et al. Hist. Geol. & Med. 141/1 An actual stone removed from the bladder, or a Jewish stone, was first crushed and dissolved in vitro so that it would dissolve and crush the stone in vivo. < as lemmas |
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