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单词 ague drop
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ague drop
ague drop n. now historical a liquid medicinal preparation containing arsenic, used as a remedy for ague; usually in plural.
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1720 Weekly Jrnl. 25 June 494/1 (heading) Ague Drops.
1819 R. Thomas Mod. Pract. Physic (ed. 6) 18 Arsenic has long been administered by empirics with the greatest success in intermittents, under the appellation of the ague-drop.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Nov. 1472/1 ‘Tasteless Ague-drops’ and ‘Tasteless Fever-drops’ are separately scheduled in the Medicine-Stamp Act of 1812.
2010 J. C. Whorton Arsenic Cent. 233 In..1783, some two years after the occasional employment of the Ague Drops [at the Staffordshire Infirmary] began, Fowler was told by the apothecary to the Infirmary that there were chemical reasons to suspect the remedy contained arsenic.
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