| 单词 | sleeve of hippocrates |
| 释义 | > as lemmassleeve of Hippocrates sleeve of Hippocrates [after post-classical Latin manica Hippocratis] : = Hippocrates' sleeve n. at sense 1. ΚΠ 1679 tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis iii. ii. 54 Let them stand cool and covered for six days, add to it Sugar Candy ℥iij, and pass it thorow the sleeve of Hippocrates [L. per manicam Hippo.]. 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. V. xxxiv. 319 Other stones have been seen like the bags called the Sleeves of Hippocrates, made use of by the chemists; and there have been three one above another, as they usually place them. 1843 Bentley's Misc. Jan. 175 Hypocras was so called, from its being passed through a cloth strainer, formerly styled by the apothecaries ‘the sleeve of Hippocrates’. 1913 F. C. Romily in E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons 679 A bag, or sleeve of Hippocrates..was a filter named after..the ‘Father of Medicine’. 2007 S. Lee in P. Glanville & S. Lee Art of Drinking ii. 57/1 The wine [sc. hippocras] was strained through a bag known as the sleeve of Hippocrates. < as lemmas |
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