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Noun

weapon-salve

1. (now historical) A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society (2012), page 184:

     The supreme example of a magical cure justified by the Neoplatonist belief in occult influences and sympathies was the weapon-salve, around which a fierce controversy raged in the 1630s.

   • 2002, Allen G Debus, The Chemical Philosophy, page 246:

     A century earlier Paracelsus had described the weapon-salve, which was prepared from a number of ingredients including the blood of the injured person.

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• hoplochrism