tetrapharmacum
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Tetrapharmacum
Latin tetrapharmacum, Greek tetrapharmakos (τετραφάρμακος) (sometimes tetrapharmakon, τετραϕάρμακον) - the "fourfold drug" was a pharmaceutical compound known in ancient Greek pharmacology, a mixture of wax, pine resin, pitch and animal fat, most often pork fat.

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Tetrapharmacum
(n.)
A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment.
  

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