alipta muscata

English

Alternative forms

• alippa muscata

Noun

alipta muscata (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete or historical) A medicinal paste made with ladanum 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.