| 单词 | aggregative pill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaggregative pill aggregative pill n. [after post-classical Latin pillula aggregativa (1505 or earlier); compare the French and Spanish parallels cited in the main etymology] Medicine (now historical and rare) any kind of pill formulated from several ingredients (with different actions) and used in the treatment of diseases believed to affect more than one system or part of the body, or to be caused by more than morbid humour; cf. polychrest n. 1. ΚΠ 1603 T. Lodge Treat. Plague xii. sig. H2v The poore may vse pilles Aggregatiue, or Aurea, or Cochia, to the quantitie of a drachme or foure scruples, and when their medicine hath wrought his operation, they may take half a porrenger of the broath of a chickin, and make a light meale. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 398 The whites, or womans flux..; it's cured,..if bilious, by temperants, subastringents, succory and endive, evacuation by rhubarb, aggregative pills, and those of rhubarb. 1694 J. Pechey London Dispensatory 73 (heading) Aggregative Pills, or Pills that have many Virtues, in Latin, pillulae aggegativæ sive polychrestæ. 2011 J. Shaw & E. Welch Making & Marketing Med. in Renaissance Florence 250 Bespoke varieties tended to cost more—a composition of agaric trochisks and ‘aggregative pills’ cost eight denari each. < as lemmas |
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