Crossword-Solution: TURPETH
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| Turpeth | n. | The root of Ipom/a Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes called vegetable turpeth. |
| Turpeth | n. | A heavy yellow powder, Hg3O2SO4, which consists of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- called also turpeth mineral. |
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| convolvulaceous plant of the East Indies, having roots with purgative properties | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with TURPETH (5)
YELLOW SUBSULPHATE OF MERCURY (_Hydrargyri Sulphas flava_), commonly known as _Turpeth Mineral,_ is an efficient and most desirable emetic in membranous croup.
The following treatment has been found very effectual in membranous croup, and is recommended by the highest authorities: Yellow subsulphate of mercury, or turpeth mineral, three to five grains, depending upon the age of the child, for one dose.
Turpeth mineral in the quantity of one grain mixed with ten grains of sugar answers every purpose to be expected from errhines.
Violent errhines and sialagogues, Turpeth mineral, hydrargyrus vitriolatus, asarum europæum, euphorbium, capsicum, veratrum, nauseous smells, nauseous ideas.
Calomel, six or eight grains; or, in an obstinate case, Turpeth Mineral or Yellow Mercury, six to twelve grains in a bolus.