London paste

English

Noun

(medicine, historical) A paste made of caustic soda and unslaked lime, used as a caustic to destroy tumours and other morbid enlargements.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “London paste”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)