Citations:phœnigmus
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English citations of phœnigmus
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Noun: reddening[edit]
- 1825 C.E., John Wilkes, Encyclopædia Londinensis; Volume XX, page #287:
- The appellation of phœnigmus has alſo been ſometimes given to the rubefacient ſubſtance isſelf.
- 1835 C.E., Thomas Browne, Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors, in Sir Thomas Browne’s Works, William Pickering; book III, Chapter III, page #400:
- The temper of their dung and intestinal execrations do also confirm the same ; which topically applied, become a phœnigmus or rubifying medicine, and are of such fiery parts, that, as we read in Galen, they have of themselves conceived fire, and burnt a house about them.