| 单词 | philosophers' egg |
| 释义 | > as lemmasphilosophers' egg philosophers' egg n. (also philosopher's egg) now historical (a) = philosophers' stone n. 1 (cf. egg of philosophers n. at Phrases 1); †(b) a medicine made of egg yolk and saffron, formerly thought to cure the plague (obsolete); (c) an egg-shaped glass vessel with a long neck, used for heating substances over a long period of time; = philosophical egg n. at philosophical adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for the plague > others philosophers' egga1500 a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 65 Take the..philosophers egge..compone hym egally and proporcionly, so that ther be no dyvysion ther-in neyther repugnance. c1500 MS Sloane 1592 f. 154v A proved medicine againste the pestilence called A philosophres Egge. Take Firste an egge and breake a hole in one ende..and do out the white..take hole safron and fille the shelle therewith by the yolcke [etc.]. 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes ii. 44 Called by Alchimists Ouum Philosophorum, the Philosophers egge. a1626 F. Bacon Wks. (1852) II. 567/1 I have tried the same experiment with a glass (or philosopher's) egg. 1954 Osiris 11 34 One whole leaf relating to this subject of the philosophers' egg which is found in the Vatican Palatine manuscript is omitted from the Arundel manuscript. 1998 Ambix 45 178 For this operation, one put an amalgam of mercury and either gold or silver inside a sealed retort (i.e., a philosophers' egg). < as lemmas |
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