toxitabellae
English
Noun
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 […]
- 1945, New York Legislative Documents (volume 2, page 81)