英语词汇“vegetable mercury”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

vegetable mercury n. †(a) Alchemy a form of mercury (mercury n. 8) (obsolete); (b) a medicinal preparation of plant origin used in place of mercury; any of the plants used in this way; esp. mudar, a plant of the genus Calotropis, and the manaca, Brunfelsia (formerly Franciscea) uniflora (now chiefly historical).

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1668 L. Coelson Philosophia Maturata 23 The Elixer is the same vegetable Mercury, which yet by reason of its fixation, is said not to be common, but consisting of many things.

1704 Philos. Epist. 12 By casting of a Mineral Sulphur into a Vegetable Mercury, by which they completely and perfectly purge each other.

1819 Medico-chirurgical Trans. 10 31 Mr. Playfair emphatically describes it as a ‘vegetable mercury’ specific in the cures of lues venerea, leprosy and cutaneous eruptions in general.

1884 Therapeutic Gaz. 15 Jan. 21/1 The name vegetable mercury is given to this plant [sc. manaca] by the inhabitants of Para, for the reason of its frequent use in..maladies where mercury is indicated.

1887 Standard 16 Sept. 5/2 The tree tomato..on the Spanish Mainland is known as..the ‘vegetable mercury’, from its supposed beneficial effect on the liver.

1903 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. 24 Jan. 92/1 It [sc. calotropis] has other properties, for which it is held in repute by the natives, notably its action in venereal diseases, which has gained it the name of ‘vegetable mercury’.

1995 D. B. Elliot Wild Roots 38/2 At one time, mercury compounds were used..in treating ailments of the liver and other organs. Thus May Apple root came to be called vegetable mercury.

单词	vegetable mercury
释义	> as lemmas vegetable mercury vegetable mercury n. †(a) Alchemy a form of mercury (mercury n. 8) (obsolete); (b) a medicinal preparation of plant origin used in place of mercury; any of the plants used in this way; esp. mudar, a plant of the genus Calotropis, and the manaca, Brunfelsia (formerly Franciscea) uniflora (now chiefly historical). ΚΠ 1668 L. Coelson Philosophia Maturata 23 The Elixer is the same vegetable Mercury, which yet by reason of its fixation, is said not to be common, but consisting of many things. 1704 Philos. Epist. 12 By casting of a Mineral Sulphur into a Vegetable Mercury, by which they completely and perfectly purge each other. 1819 Medico-chirurgical Trans. 10 31 Mr. Playfair emphatically describes it as a ‘vegetable mercury’ specific in the cures of lues venerea, leprosy and cutaneous eruptions in general. 1884 Therapeutic Gaz. 15 Jan. 21/1 The name vegetable mercury is given to this plant [sc. manaca] by the inhabitants of Para, for the reason of its frequent use in..maladies where mercury is indicated. 1887 Standard 16 Sept. 5/2 The tree tomato..on the Spanish Mainland is known as..the ‘vegetable mercury’, from its supposed beneficial effect on the liver. 1903 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. 24 Jan. 92/1 It [sc. calotropis] has other properties, for which it is held in repute by the natives, notably its action in venereal diseases, which has gained it the name of ‘vegetable mercury’. 1995 D. B. Elliot Wild Roots 38/2 At one time, mercury compounds were used..in treating ailments of the liver and other organs. Thus May Apple root came to be called vegetable mercury. extracted from vegetableadj. < as lemmas
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