单词 | black draught |
释义 | > as lemmasblack draught black draught n. now historical a purgative liquid medicine containing an infusion of senna and a variety of other ingredients (typically magnesium sulphate, liquorice, and herbs and spices); a dose of this; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > purgative > drink black draught1823 medicine1830 1823 London Med. & Physical Jrnl. 50 321 In twelve hours from the first purgative he had three grains of calomel and six of James' powder; followed, in twelve hours, by a black draught. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 166 Go enjoy your dull black draughts of metaphysics. 1861 A. K. H. Boyd Recreat. Country Parson 2nd Ser. 155 As if you gave a man a large jug of pure water, and then cast into it a few drops of black-draught. 1935 Lancet 14 Dec. 1345/1 My grandfather used a blue pill and a black draught which he called ‘a birch broom and a bucket of water’. 2003 D. A. E. Shephard Island Doctor iii. 38 Further treatment included an enema of salts, muriate of soda, oil of terebinth, and Black draught (a senna preparation). < as lemmas |
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