"blue ointment" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1861, Richard Barwell, A Treatise on the Joints, page 185:",
          "text": "His arm was placed on a rectangular splint, wrapped in a piece of lint thickly smeared with blue ointment, and the whole covered with oil-silk; and he was ordered a purge of blue pill followed by senna and salts.",
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          "ref": "1919, Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 73:",
          "text": "In this article we called attention to the fact that blue ointment was more volatile than calomel.",
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        {
          "ref": "1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 115:",
          "text": "The worst I got was the crabs and I got rid of those with blue ointment.",
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        "Mercurial ointment."
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  "word": "blue ointment"
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          "ref": "1861, Richard Barwell, A Treatise on the Joints, page 185:",
          "text": "His arm was placed on a rectangular splint, wrapped in a piece of lint thickly smeared with blue ointment, and the whole covered with oil-silk; and he was ordered a purge of blue pill followed by senna and salts.",
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          "text": "In this article we called attention to the fact that blue ointment was more volatile than calomel.",
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          "text": "The worst I got was the crabs and I got rid of those with blue ointment.",
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        "Mercurial ointment."
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