blue ointment

noun

Mercurial ointment.

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Meanings

nounblue ointment (usually uncountable, plural blue ointments)

plural blue ointments

  1. uncountableusuallyMercurial ointment.

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

    1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 115
    2 more 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.

    1861, Richard Barwell, A Treatise on the Joints, page 185

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

    1919, Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 73
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