单词 | nastin |
释义 | nastinn. Medicine. disused. A fatty substance obtained from bacteria (perhaps actinomycetes) originally isolated from a lepromatous nodule, and formerly administered by subcutaneous injection to treat leprosy. ΚΠ 1905 G. Deycke & Reschad Bacterial Fat as Immunizing Substance in Leprosy 7 This well-defined fatty substance which on account of its firm and close texture we will call ‘Nastin’, must..be the substance imparting to bacteria an extraordinary resisting power to..chemical influence. 1908 G. Deycke in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Apr. 802/2 By giving suitable doses of pure nastin by hypodermic injection, there ensued more or less intensive reactive processes in the leprous tissue. 1910 C.M.S. Gaz. Apr. 114/2 The Leper Hospital contains eighty patients. The new drug, nastin..has been tried systematically with encouraging results. 1935 O. S. Ormsby Dis. Skin (ed. 4) vii. 903 Rogers gave nastin a thorough trial in the Gobra Leper Asylum, Calcutta, and concluded that it was useless. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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