tetrapharmacum

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noun

A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment.

OriginLatin pharmacum →
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Meanings

nountetrapharmacum (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountablemedicineA combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment.

    When the inflammation shall have ceased , the wound should be cleansed , and linen dipped in honey will answer this purpose best ; and over that must be applied the same plaster (tetrapharmacum) or the enneapharmacum.

    1831, Alexander Lee, Aur. Cor. Celsus on Medicine

Origin

  1. Latinpharmacum“drug”
  2. Englishtetrapharmacum

See tetra- (“four”) and Latin pharmacum (“drug”).

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