inunction

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I directed mercurial inunction, and calomel from 3 to 6 grains to be taken at first every six, and afterwards every three hours.

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  1. noun The process of applying and rubbing in an ointment.
  2. noun The act of anointing, as in a religious ceremony.

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  • The inunction was denied but not the rest of the case? —  Latest Articles
  • On the first appearance of syphilitic manifestations it should be given 0.05 grm, novarsenbillon, injected into the deep subcutaneous tissues every week for six weeks, followed by one year's mercurial inunction--a piece of mercurial ointment the size of a pea being inserted under the infant's binder. —  Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
  • Such an inunction was, in ancient times, as it still continues to be in many modern countries and contemporary religions, a symbol of the setting apart of the thing or person so anointed and consecrated to a holy purpose Hence, then, we are reminded by this last impressive ceremony, that the cultivation of virtue, the practice of duty, the resistance of temptation, the submission to suffering, the devotion to truth, the maintenance of integrity, and all those other graces by which we strive to fit our bodies, as living stones, for the spiritual building of eternal life, must, after all, to make the object effectual and the labor successful, be consecrated by a holy obedience to God's will and a firm reliance on God's providence, which alone constitute the chief corner-stone and sure foundation, on which any man can build with the reasonable hope of a prosperous issue to his work It may be noticed, in concluding this topic, that the corner-stone seems to be peculiarly a Jewish symbol. —  The Symbolism of Freemasonry
  • I directed mercurial inunction, and calomel from 3 to 6 grains to be taken at first every six, and afterwards every three hours. —  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • After the wound has healed, mercurial inunction over the spine is employed to hasten the absorption of inflammatory products. —  Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
 

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  1. Middle English, anointing, from Latin inūnctiō, inūnctiōn-, from inūnctus, past participle of inunguere, to anoint : in-, on; see in-2 + unguere, to smear.

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  1. from Latin inunctio(n-), an anointing, a spreading on, from inungere, anoint, spread on, from in, on, + ungere, smear: see unction. Cf. anoint, from the same verb (Latin inungere).
 

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