blue pill

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A combination of elemental mercury mixed with (by grinding together in a mortar) rose petals, sugar, and licorice powder, and then made into pills. Used for syphilis or as a purgative. Aka blue pill, blue mass, mercurial pill, pilulae hydrargyri.

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