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blue mass

noun

, Pharmacology.
  1. Also called mercury mass. a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blue mass1

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
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Example Sentences

A dark blue mass of water some fifty feet in height was seen sweeping in upon the town with inconceivable rapidity.

The providence of God is not dependent on patent nostrums; nor is He limited in His healing power to calomel or blue mass.

Then some half-mile out they saw the blue mass of Sardinian cavalry advancing by squadrons.

In other cases I have used with advantage small doses of calomel or blue mass, followed, if necessary, by a gentle saline purge.

Calomel or blue mass may be given either simultaneously with the quinia or in alternate doses.

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