单词 | citrine ointment |
释义 | > as lemmascitrine ointment citrine ointment n. (also †ointment citrine) [compare post-classical Latin unguentum citrinum (first half of the 16th cent. or earlier), Anglo-Norman oignement citrin (14th or 15th cent.), Spanish ungüento citrino (1493)] now historical any of various yellowish ointments used to treat skin blemishes or eye conditions, made from a range of ingredients including crushed shells, white lead or other minerals, and (sometimes) bark, rind, or juice from a citron, orange, etc.; spec. (since the 18th cent.) an ointment containing mercuric nitrate. ΚΠ c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 65 (MED) Citrine oi [n] tment. 1526 Grete Herball cccxxi. sig. Siiv/1 To whyte the face put this powdre in oyntment cytryne & anoynte ye face. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 237 Dentalium and Entalium..are as yet but little used, and not but in the Citrine ointment. 1780 J. Ware Remarks Ophthalmy 91 When the irritation was, in some degree, abated, the Citrine Ointment was also applied again. 1829 R. Reece Monthly Gaz. Health Nov. 745 For irritative piles and leprous affections of the skin:—Take of Expressed Oil..; Citrine Ointment;..of each three drachms. 1861 C. R. Gilman Beck's Lect. Materia Medica (ed. 3) 189 Unguentum Nitratis Hydrargyri.—Commonly known by the name of Citrin Ointment. Prepared by dissolving mercury in nitric acid, and then adding a certain proportion of lard and oil while the solution is hot. 1925 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 40 2870 Only four mercurial ointments are now official, the ointment of mercuric nitrate, or citrine ointment, being deleted. 2006 J. Tayman Colony i. 62 A hospital and schoolhouse had been built in the settlement..and a case of medicine shipped over, mostly Epsom salts and citrine ointment. < as lemmas |
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