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opodeldoc
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Opodeldoc \Op`o*del"doc\, n. [So called by Paracelsus. The first syllable may be fr. Gr. ? vegetable juice.] A kind of plaster, said to have been invented by Mindererus, -- used for external injuries. [Obs.] A saponaceous, camphorated liniment; a solution ...
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Opodeldoc is a sort of liniment invented, or at least named, by the physician Paracelsus . Paracelsus's opodeldoc was a mixture of soap in alcohol , to which camphor and sometimes a number of herbal essences, most notably wormwood , were added. Paracelsus's ...
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n. 1 (context obsolete English) A kind of plaster, said to have been invented by Mindererus, used for external injury. 2 (context obsolete English) A saponaceous, camphorated liniment; a solution of soap in alcohol, with the addition of camphor and essential ...