sugar of milk

noun

1. lactose.

sugar of milk

noun

1. another name for lactose

Word History and Origins

Origin of sugar of milk¹

First recorded in 1745–55

Example Sentences

A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.

From Project Gutenberg

One drop of their solution is considered sufficient to saturate three hundred globules of sugar of milk; and three or four of these globules are deemed a powerful medicine.

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For this purpose I got a lot of live cockroaches, killed them and pounded to a fine pulp and triturated according to class IX of American Homœopathic Pharmacopœia, that is, two parts by weight of the substance and nine parts by weight of sugar of milk, giving 1x trituration.

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I now caused 5 grains of my calculi to be triturated in my presence with 95 grains of sugar of milk, according to the fashion of Hahnemann, and took 1/2 grain in the evening of the 17th, another 1/2 grain in the morning of the 18th.

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PREPARATION.—The insect is triturated with sugar of milk in the usual way.

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