Alexipharmic

Word ALEXIPHARMIC
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Hyphenation a lex i phar mic
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The medicine mithridate forms a part of many of these prescriptions; it does not seem to be regarded as an alexipharmic, but as a soporific. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)

"Is that some new alexipharmic?" he asked with a sudden rational air, which was almost as startling as if a dead man had spoken. ❋ Unknown (1875)

One was an alexipharmic draught, to be taken the last thing at night, another a sudorific, to be administered once in every hour. ❋ Unknown (1875)

The roots of the different species are subacid and mucilaginous when fresh; and a decoction of them has been employed as a domestic remedy in sore mouth and in affections of the throat; also considered as alexipharmic in snake bites. ❋ Unknown (1863)

The roots, and to some extent the leaves, are used in medicine; the inner bark and all the herbaceous parts are nauseously bitter; it is regarded as a purgative, emetic, and alexipharmic; in overdoses it is an acrid poison. ❋ William Saunders (1861)

-- A native of the East Indies, where the roots are used in medicine as a febrifuge and alexipharmic. ❋ William Saunders (1861)

In after years, however, I was enabled to classify his "charm," which was no other than the _Aristolochia serpentaria_ -- a species closely allied to the "bejuco de guaco," that alexipharmic rendered so celebrated by the pens of Mutis and Humboldt. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

To this question, he replied, that venesection had been three times performed; that a vesicatory had been applied inter scapulas; that the patient had taken occasionally of a cathartic apozem, and between whiles, alexipharmic boluses and neutral draughts. ❋ Tobias George Smollett (1746)

To this question, he replied, that venesection had been three times performed; that a vesicatory had been applied inter scapulas; that the patient had taken occasionally of a cathartic apozem, and between whiles, alexipharmic boluses and neutral draughts. — “Neutral, indeed,” said the doctor; “so neutral, that I’ll be crucified if ever they declare either for the patient or the disease.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

[* Among the interesting plants of the valley of Caripe, we found for the first time a calidium, the trunk of which was twenty feet high (C. arboreum); the Mikania micrantha, which may probably possess some of the alexipharmic properties of the famous guaco of the Choco; the ❋ Unknown (1851)

* (* Among the interesting plants of the valley of Caripe, we found for the first time a calidium, the trunk of which was twenty feet high (C. arboreum); the Mikania micrantha, which may probably possess some of the alexipharmic properties of the famous guaco of the Choco; the Bauhinia obtusifolia, a very large tree, called guarapa by the ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)

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