Antipyretic

So great is the danger of such injurious results, few careful practitioners have cared to adopt the heroic "antipyretic" medication recommended by experimenters, preferring to allow their patients to burn with fever, mitigated only by such simple means as are commonly employed by nurses, than to require them to combat the poisonous influences of a drug in addition to the morbid element of the disease. ❋ Various (N/A)

Cinnamon also has a tremendous ability to act as an antipyretic, reducing fever in a manner similar to aspirin or Tylenol, without the negative side effects. ❋ M.D. Nicholas Perricone (2010)

IV antibiotic and oral antipyretic of choice: more $ ❋ 1 Dinosaur (2009)

Do it in planned stages if you will with liberal antipyretic cover, but vaccination may actually end up protecting the child more than will be the case if she/he is left to acquire the infections naturally. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There was no doctor with the wagon train, so all they could do was cleanse the wounds in hope of preventing infection, and force an antipyretic down his throat to try and ward off a fever. ❋ Ana Leigh (2004)

In trials, positive results have been obtained for significant analgesic, antipyretic, and antiinflammatory effects. ❋ Unknown (1992)

Neem may also be a ready source of low-cost analgesic (pain relieving), or antipyretic (fever-reducing) compounds. ❋ Unknown (1992)

He opened his medicine case and mixed a simple antipyretic. ❋ Wilder Anthony (N/A)

It has been found, for example, that artificial quinine-like bodies, which fluoresce and give the green color with chlorine water and ammonia, have antipyretic properties like quinine, but their secondary effects are so pernicious as to prevent their use. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the second place, it is necessary that the antipyretic treatment, to reduce the fever, should not be foreign to the organism and should not be such as is not measurable in degrees as to its effects, or has any unpleasant accompanying effects or after-effects. ❋ Louis Dechmann (N/A)

I have found, indeed, that it appeals to all classes of taste, from that of a telephone operator, whose usual artistic debauch is the latest antipyretic novel of Robert W. Chambers, to that of the frequenter of the concert halls. ❋ Carl Van Vechten (1922)

It was at Loja that the valuable properties of the cinchona-bark, the source of quinine, were first discovered by a Spanish soldier who, having accidentally experienced its antipyretic qualities, by means of it cured the vice-reine of Peru, the Countess of Chichon (a quo cinchona), of a fever, and thus made it known to the world. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Medical College of Calcutta and reported good tonic and antipyretic effects. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

As a tonic and antipyretic it is certainly worthy of recommendation. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

The decoction is used internally as an antipyretic in fevers and in dysentery. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

After experimenting with the root, the compilers of the Bengal Dispensatory announced their uncertainty as to whether or not it possessed antipyretic properties; however, they pronounce it diaphoretic, an exciter of the appetite and an excellent bitter tonic. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

Dr. Bholanauth Bose calls attention to this plant as a good substitute for _Ophelia chirata_, DC. as a tonic and antipyretic. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

"In conclusion, the use of alcoholic stimulants, and the common employment of depressing antipyretic agents, must be condemned." ❋ Martha Meir Allen (1890)

_Alcohol is used in sickness as a food, when solid foods cannot be assimilated, "to support" or sustain, the vitality; it is used as a stimulant, a tonic, a sedative or narcotic, an anti-spasmodic, an antiseptic and antipyretic; it is used in combination with other drugs, in tinctures and in pharmacy. ❋ Martha Meir Allen (1890)

For instance, Davison, of this bureau, was able to reduce greatly the mortality from this affection by giving an antipyretic of 40 grains of quinin, 2 drams of acetanilid, and 30 grains of powdered nux vomica four times daily. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)