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blister gum
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the gum of the Canada balsam.
See: Canada balsam
Quotations
1905
To cure a cough they boiled down spruce bark and mixed the liquor with . . . a turpentiny smelling liquor. The latter may have been the melted blister-gum that is found under the smooth bark of the balsam.