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单词 panpharmacon
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panpharmaconn.

Brit. /panˈfɑːmək(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌpænˈfɑrməˌkɑn/
Forms: 1600s–1700s panpharmacom, 1600s– panpharmacon, 1700s pampharmacon.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element; probably modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: pan- comb. form, Greek ϕάρμακον.
Etymology: < pan- comb. form + ancient Greek ϕάρμακον drug (see pharmaco- comb. form), probably after ancient Greek παμϕάρμακος (adjective) skilled in all drugs. Compare earlier alexipharmacum n.
Now rare (chiefly archaic).
A panacea.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > universal medicine
mithridatum1526
mithridate1528
mithridaticon?1544
panacea1548
mithridatium1559
heal-all1577
catholicon1611
panchreston1623
allheal1630
panpharmacon1649
universal1656
diacatholicon1665
panacaeon1684
panacya1690
panchrest1728
universality1756
cure-all1870
1649 Necessary Exam. Dangerous Design & Pract. 21 The Covenant is not such a panpharmacon either for prevention or cure, as you would cry it up for.
1660 W. Chamberlayne Englands Iubile 2 Thou art our great Panpharmacon, which by Its vertue cures each various malladie.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xiv. 739/2 It is used by some as Panpharmacom, but what Diseases it will absolutely cure I think is scarcely determined.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical ix. 95 The Outsides of their Pots were Gilded with the Titles of Preservatives, Cordials, and Panpharmacons.
1764 J. N. Scott New Universal Etymol. Dict. Pampharmacon, an universal remedy against all manner of poisons; or (if such a thing could be found) an universal remedy against all diseases.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. ii. 193 The divine Isaac Barrow resorted to this panpharmacon [sc. tobacco] whenever he wished to collect his thoughts.
1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 85 Should any man dare to anoint his face with this panpharmacon he will utter dreadful and audacious things.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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