toxitabellae
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[edit]Noun
[edit]toxitabellae pl (plural only)
- (medicine, dated, historical) Tablets of mercuric chloride or mercuric bichloride, formerly used to treat syphilis.
- 1945, New York Legislative Documents, volume 2, page 81:
- As in cases of the injections, the amount of ingredients are not prescribed or dose in any table given except in the toxitabellae Hydrargyri Chloridi (Tablets of mercuric bichloride.)
- 1945, Rufus Ashley Lyman, American Pharmacy, page 442:
- Two classes of tablets are now official, the Toxitabellae and the Tabellae. The former appellation is reserved solely for tablets of mercuric chloride […]