Meaning of weapon-salve | Babel Free

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A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon, believed to heal a wound caused by that weapon.

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“One of his great enthusiasms was for a "sympathetic" weapon salve, an idea originating in Paracelsus.”

“The supreme example of a magical cure justified by the Neoplatonist belief in occult influences and sympathies was the weapon-salve, around which a fierce controversy raged in the 1630s.”

“A century earlier Paracelsus had described the weapon-salve, which was prepared from a number of ingredients including the blood of the injured person.”

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