Not necessarily chemical substances as we know them, but usually well described by the Greek root χυμός (khumós), meaning “juice,” including plant, animal, or flavor.
| Name | Date | Effect or Use | Etymology |
|---|---|---|---|
| butter | 2007-01-19 (Friday) ✣ | Calming Pie, Madelines | |
| calixia oil | 2018-03-12 (Monday) ✣ | Inoculation draught | |
| ghost spider venom | 2016-05-04 (Wednesday) ✣ | Madwa Korel's secret recipe #3 and five others | |
| hesperidial salts | 2009-07-31 (Friday) ✣ | component of remedy for Vericus Panteliax's Chromatic Death | orange, the color of sunset or citrus fruit |
| Hypatia's clove (red[1]) | 2009-08-10 (Monday) ✣ | component of remedy for Hogfarb's Resplendent Immolation | Hypatia was a 4th cent. philosopher. Apart from the various meanings of the noun clove,[2] note that Hypatia's murderers clove her to pieces. |
| ichor of somnia | 2009-07-31 (Friday) ✣ | component of remedy for Vericus Panteliax's Chromatic Death; inhalation causes sleep ✣ | Ichor in Greek mythology, is the ethereal fluid that is the blood of the gods and/or immortals. Also, in pathology, Ichor is an antiquated term for a watery discharge from a wound or ulcer, with an unpleasant or fetid (offensive) smell. Given that it causes sleep, and smells bad, this may be an alterate name for Ether or Chloroform. |
| Monahan's venefirous mus elixir | 2012-03-12 (Monday) ✣ | Inoculation draught | Venefirous: resembles Latin for "poisoned"[3] and English for "suitable for making wine".[4]. Mus: Latin for "rat".[5] Elixir: Latin or English for a medicinal liquid;[6] evidently one such as distilled rat-type poison,[7] or one made from —presumably crushed and fermented— wine-type rats. Or an Elixir to render Doctor Monahan's Giant Rats poisonous. We've learned since that they are, in fact, venomous. |
| nutmeg | 2007-01-19 (Friday) ✣ | Calming Pie | |
| Pellicax's twist | 2012-03-12 (Monday) ✣ | ||
| silver of vixonite | 2012-03-12 (Monday) ✣ | Inoculation draught | |
| St. Michael's toes | 2012-03-12 (Monday) ✣ | ||
| vitrium of mustard | 2009-09-30 (Wednesday) ✣ | stimulant (rouser) | A vitrium is
Mustards are a large family of plants, including Woad. This can be used to make a translucent Blue fluid, used as Dye. It may or may not be a Hallucinogen. But, if fermented or distilled, until clear--that is, until it became a Vitrium...perhaps psychotropic. And, thus, a potential ingredient in an anti-Mind Control potion. |
| waters of the Dyne | 2009-11-02 (Monday) ✣ | Jägerbräu |
References
- ↑ Evidently there are other colors. These are (probably) unknown, as Gil's reaction in the sixth frame of 2009-08-10 (Monday) ✣ implies that the red kind over time oxidizes through yellow to white.
- ↑ the spice or the red-flowered tree it comes from; a flower clove pink, ancestor of the carnation, that can be red; a narrow valley; or eight pounds of cheese (for other commodities, half a stone)
- ↑ "Venefirous" appears to be very close to the Latin word "venenifer", an adjective usually meaning "poisonous" or "poisoned"; i.e., both "this rat is dead because it was poisoned" and "don't let the dog eat it because it is now poisonous".
- ↑ "Viniferous" — note that the i's and e's have been exchanged.
- ↑ or "mouse", see Mus
- ↑ The word has a number of senses, mostly referring to a liquid: one that converts lead into gold; a cure-all that extends life indefinitely; or just one sweet and mildly alcoholic used to mask unpleasant medicines. The 1913 edition of Webster's also lists "quintessence" and "tincture". So it would seem NyQuil™ is a good modern example.
- ↑ Note that 4-hydroxycoumarins are anticoagulants used both as pharmaceuticals and rodenticides.