blue ointment

English

Noun

blue ointment (usually uncountable, plural blue ointments)

1. Mercurial ointment.
   • 1861, Richard Barwell, A Treatise on the Joints, page 185:

     His arm was placed on a rectangular splint, wrapped in a piece of lint thickly smeared with blue ointment, and the whole covered with oil-silk; and he was ordered a purge of blue pill followed by senna and salts.

   • 1919, Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 73:

     In this article we called attention to the fact that blue ointment was more volatile than calomel.

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 115:

     The worst I got was the crabs and I got rid of those with blue ointment.