单词 | red room |
释义 | > as lemmasred room red room n. Medicine (now historical) a room illuminated only by red light; (attributive) designating a treatment for smallpox involving confinement of patients to such a room, (supposedly) reducing pustule formation and scarring. ΚΠ 1902 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 221/1 Any practitioner may, if he chooses, give the red-room cure a trial. 1921 Lancet 26 Feb. 426/2 Finsen's well-known method of preventing pustulation by keeping small-pox patients in a red room is here alluded to. 1947 P. G. Edge Vital Statistics & Public Health Work Tropics (new ed.) xii. 128 It also may be noted that Finsen, the Danish founder of modern actino-therapy,..(his ‘Red Room’ treatment). < as lemmas |
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