单词 | blue mass |
释义 | > as lemmasblue mass blue mass Pharmacology (now historical) = blue pill n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicine prepared from mercury mercury1617 blue pill1670 calomel1676 mercurial1676 silver-pill1753 blue mass1823 panacea of mercury1823 grey powder1842 1823 Amer. Med. Recorder 6 592 (advt.) New medicines..Mercurial Ointment, Blue Mass, and the Extracts, made at Apothecary's Hall, London. 1932–41 J. Mellon Bullwhip Days (1988) xiii. 311 Grandpappy liked to come and measure out the medicine. He give us copperas, blue mass, ipecac, rhubarb, and walnut tea. 2001 New Scientist 21 July 21/1 During this time, he [sc. Abraham Lincoln] was prescribed a drug known as ‘blue mass’, which..was probably used to treat the great man's legendary ‘melancholia’. < as lemmas |
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