Meaning of blue ointment | Babel Free

Definitions

Mercurial ointment.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“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.”

“In this article we called attention to the fact that blue ointment was more volatile than calomel.”

“The worst I got was the crabs and I got rid of those with blue ointment.”

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