单词 | spleen-stone |
释义 | † spleen-stonen. Obsolete. A stone supposed to cure disorders of the spleen. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [noun] > for the spleen spleen-stone1595 splenetica1648 splenetical1671 1595 W. Raleigh Discov. Guiana (1596) 24 A kinde of greene stones, which the Spaniards call Piedras Hijadas, and we vse for spleene stones. 1613 R. Harcourt Relation Voy. Guiana 36 There are diuers kinds of Stone of great vse, and good price, as Iasper, Purphery, and the Spleene-stone. 1666 in Myddelton Chirk Castle Accts. (1908) 131 Paid the man that came with the spleene stone from Dolgrog. 1691 London Gaz. No. 2680/4 Lost.., a Green Spleen Stone cut Triangular. 1775 G. Motherby New Med. Dict. Ophites, called also serpentinus, ophite, or spleen-stone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1595 |
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