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blue ointment en · NOUN

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1. (uncountable, usually) Mercurial 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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