Oxymel
Oxymel is a mixture of honey and vinegar, used as a medicine.
Its name is often found in Renaissance pharmacopoeiae in Late Latin form as either a countable or uncountable noun. As a countable noun, it is spelled variously as oxymellus and oxymellis, and
plural oxymeli and oxymelli.describes it thus:Use
In the 1593 work Enchiridion chirurgicum, oxymel was recommended as part of a treatment for ophthalmia.
Because Latin was still used widely in medical prescriptions, it was still known by this name in Victorian times:
