† spasmadrap Obs.
[app. f. med.L. spasma a healing powder (Du Cange) + F. drap cloth: cf. sparadrap.]
A medical plaster.
c 1540 in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. ix. 222 Make thereof a plaster, or a spasmadrappe. [1826 Horace Smith Tor Hill I. 106 He [a friar] carried divers pills, spasmadraps, cordials, and drops for his adult patients.] |