| 单词 | oil of bricks | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasoil of bricks   oil of bricks  n. 		(also oil of brick)	 now historical a preparation typically made by distilling oil in which brick dust or hot bricks have been soaked, used medicinally for the treatment of a variety of diseases; = brick oil n. 1; also called oil of philosophers. ΚΠ ?1575    J. Hester True & Perfect Order to distill Oyles sig. D.iiv 		(heading)	  				The order to make oyle of briks otherwise called oleum philosophorum delateribus. 1653    N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 153/1  				The Oyls and Oyntments made of these, Turpentine, Oyl of Bricks, Oyl of Foxes, Oyl of Bays, Oyl of Dill, [etc.]. 1737    B. Godfrey Miscellanea vere Utilia 		(ed. 2)	 28  				Strong Coffee must be noxious; for its innate fœtid Oil is rarify'd..by the Act of roasting, whereby it becomes like an Oleum Philosophorum..or Oil of Bricks, very pungent and active. 1803    A. F. M. Willich  & J. Mease Domest. Encycl. 		(Amer. ed.)	 I. 401/2  				Oil of bricks, a singular preparation, formerly much esteemed in the cure of many diseases; but now justly exploded as absurd and pernicious rather than useful. 1902    Chemist & Druggist 5 Apr. 541/2  				For oil of brick the modern equivalent is linseed oil coloured with alkanet. 1980    N. F. George in  J. Weisheipl Albertus Magnus & Sci. ix. 257  				The preparation of oil of bricks is a rudimentary catalytic cracking process, remotely resembling those used in today's petroleum refineries. < as lemmas  | 
	
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