lohochn.
/ˈləʊhɒk/ Medicine.
A linctus.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > syrup or linctus > [noun]
lectuary?c1225
electuary1398
syrup1398
lohoch?1543
condite1583
licking-medicine1597
eclegme1606
lincture1621
lambitive1656
lingencea1661
linctus1681
?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe iii. f. xix Take mornynge and euenyng, a spoueful of the sirupe of iuiubes..in maner of a loc.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 47 They are good in a loche or licking medicine for shortnes of breath.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 76 This seed is passing good for lohoches or electuaries to be made thereof.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden lxxiii. 139 The Juyce of Liquorice dissolved in Rose Water, with some Gum, Tragacanth, is a fine Lohoch..for hoarsenesse.
1753 N. Torriano tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 99 I made the Patient take..some white Lohoc.
1781 J. Moore View Soc. Italy (1795) II. 222 Numerous forms of electuaries, lohochs, and linctuses.
1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica vii. 288 Dose, from gut. xx. to gut. xxx. a day in a looch or any mucilaginous menstruum.
1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Looch, a linctus, or opaque oily emulsion, which may be used as a demulcent, or as an excipient for the suspension of powders.
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