A rare or archaic term for a medicinal preparation or poultice containing bile or bile-related ingredients.
From Latin 'bilis' (bile) + '-ment' (suffix indicating result or product), following the pattern of medical terms like 'liniment' that describe topical treatments.
In medieval and ancient medicine, doctors would make all sorts of strange bile-based remedies—today we know that most of them didn't work, but it shows how bile was once thought to be a cure for everything!
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