alipta muscata
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- (medicine, obsolete or historical) A medicinal paste made with ladanum and used for breathing trouble.
- 1716, Nicholas Culpeper, Pharmacopœia Londinensis:
- […] they all being put in, and the Mixture a little cooled, mix the Pouders (adding at the end the Alipta and Gallia Moschata dissolved in Aromatick Wine) and with a Spatula diligently stirring and mixing them, make an Emplaster according to Art.
- 2016, Juhani Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550:
- alipta muscata […] Medicinal paste for breathing trouble made with ladanum[sic], storax, lignaloes, ambergris, camphor, musk, rose water.