weapon-salve
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Alternative forms
- weapon salve
Pronunciation
Noun
weapon-salve (plural weapon-salves)
- (now historical) A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 225:
- One of his great enthusiasms was for a "sympathetic" weapon salve, an idea originating in Paracelsus.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 184:
- The supreme example of a magical cure justified by the Neoplatonist belief in occult influences and sympathies was the weapon-salve, around which a fierce controversy raged in the 1630s.
- 2002, Allen G Debus, The Chemical Philosophy, page 246:
- A century earlier Paracelsus had described the weapon-salve, which was prepared from a number of ingredients including the blood of the injured person.
Translations
A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon
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