alipta muscata

English

Alternative forms
  • alippa muscata

Noun

alipta muscata (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, obsolete or historical) A medicinal paste made with laudanum and used for breathing trouble.
    • 1716, Nicholas Culpeper, Pharmacopœia Londinensis:
      […] they all being put in, and the Mixture a little cooled, mix the Pouders (adding at the end the Alipta and Gallia Moschata dissolved in Aromatick Wine) and with a Spatula diligently stirring and mixing them, make an Emplaster according to Art.
    • 2016, Juhani Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550:
      alipta muscata […] Medicinal paste for breathing trouble made with ladanum[sic], storax, lignaloes, ambergris, camphor, musk, rose water.
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