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Definition of Decocted
1. decoct [v] - See also: decoct
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decocted
Literary usage of Decocted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry by Pierre Joseph Macquer (1758)
"... greatly in the vegetable decocted ; as we have feen happen to the Fat Oils of
certain vegetable matters; but in that cafe ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1910)
"decocted. Cooling and tonic. Given to weakly children who have a tendency to
spinal troubles. ... decocted and given in venereal diseases. Not seen (?). ..."
3. The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus by Paracelsus (1894)
"Afterwards he casts them into his Athanor, where they are decocted, as seed in the
... They are decocted again in such a way that Sulphur may add its body, ..."
4. An Epitome of the Reports of the Medical Officers to the Chinese Imperial by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon (1884)
"Maggots from the most filthy sources : dried, powdered, or decocted, ...
The excretions, decocted: demulcent; employed in the treatment of asthmatic ..."
5. A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life by British Museum, Cecil Harcourt- Smith, Henry Beauchamp Walters, Edgar John Forsdyke, F. H. Marshall (1908)
"WINE BEING decocted (No. 504). L. 1 ft. 9 in. The must or new wine was partly
used for drinking as soon as ready, partly decocted into a sort of jelly ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1877)
"decocted for pulmonary complaints. Powdered and made into pills for cutaneous
diseases. From Szechuen prov. Fruit of Forsythia suspensa. ..."
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