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‖ syrmæa Antiq.|səˈmiːə| Also surmaia, surmia. [mod.L., a. Gr. συρµαία radish used as purge-plant, purge, f. συρµός vomiting, purging, f. σύρειν to drag along, sweep away, purge.] A cathartic said to have been used in some Egyptian forms of embalming.
1833J. Davidson Embalming 8 The third, or common process [of embalming], consisted in passing the Surmaia (supposed a cathartic solution) through the body. 1860Smith's Dict. Bible I. s.v. Embalming, The third mode [of embalming]..consisted in rinsing out the intestines with syrmaea, an infusion of senna and cassia. 1885C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts Ser. iv. 41/2 The nature of syrmaea, or, as some spell it, surmia, is not known. |