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Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin lohoc, looch, from Arabic لَعْق (laʕq, “to lick”).[1]
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Noun
lohoch (plural lohochs)
- (medicine) A medicine in a soft form taken by licking; a lambative, a linctus.
1859, Al[fred François] Donné, “Of Professional Nurses”, in Mothers and Infants, Nurses and Nursing. , Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, →OCLC, page 67:We may obtain, then, a just idea of the constitution of this liquid , if we look upon it as a soft, liquid substance, a kind of loch,* in which caseine, sugar, &c., are dissolved, and in which the fatty or oily substance is distributed in small, rounded atoms. [Footnote *: Loch, or lohoch, is an Arabian name for a medicine of a consistence between an electuary and a sirup, and usually taken by licking. […]]
2011, Graeme Tobyn, Alison Denham, Margaret Whitelegge, “Hyssopus officinalis, Hyssop”, in The Western Herbal Tradition: 2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge, Edinburgh, London: Churchill Livingstone, →ISBN, page 195, column 2: Dodoens specifically recommends the preparation of a lohoch or loch – a 'licking medicine', of middle consistency, between a soft electuary and a syrup – for relief of obstruction, shortness of breath and an old, hard cough.
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