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mercury masses

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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.
2. blue pill (def. 1).

Origin:
1850–55, Americanism

blue pill

–noun Pharmacology.
a pill of blue mass, used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic.
Also called mercury mass.


Origin:
1785–95
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