blue ointment
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[edit]Noun
[edit]blue ointment (usually uncountable, plural blue ointments)
- Mercurial ointment.
- 1861, Richard Barwell, A Treatise on the Joints, page 185:
- His arm was placed on a rectangular splint, wrapped in a piece of lint thickly smeared with blue ointment, and the whole covered with oil-silk; and he was ordered a purge of blue pill followed by senna and salts.
- 1919, Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 73:
- In this article we called attention to the fact that blue ointment was more volatile than calomel.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 115:
- The worst I got was the crabs and I got rid of those with blue ointment.