He prescribed me the usual sudorific, ordered a mustard-plaster to be put on, very deftly slid a five-rouble note up his sleeve, coughing drily and looking away as he did so, and then was getting up to go home, but somehow fell into talk and remained. ❋ Unknown (2003)
An hour's battle with a stoot is the most sudorific experience that I know, even more so than my contests with red snappers at Mazatlan, in Mexico, or bat-fish off the coasts of Florida. ❋ Various (N/A)
Besides the sudorific virtue which the esquine possesses in common with the salsaparilla, it has the property of making the hair grow, and the women among the natives use it successfully with this view. ❋ -1775 Le Page Du Pratz (N/A)
_ -- Elecampane is cultivated for its roots, which are carminative, sudorific, tonic, and alleviating in pulmonary diseases. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)
I can say from experience, that it is a powerful sudorific, and very efficacious in a cold. ❋ Lt-Col. Pinkney (N/A)
The roots are astringent and antiseptic, having been given in infusion for ague, and as an excellent cordial sudorific in chills, or for fresh catarrh. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)
It is so strong a sudorific, that the natives never use any other for promoting sweating, although they are perfectly acquainted with sassafras, salsaparilla, the esquine and others. ❋ -1775 Le Page Du Pratz (N/A)
In this respect such agencies are precisely on a par with the proprietary medicine that is an excellent laxative or sudorific, but is offered also as a cure for tuberculosis or cancer. ❋ Arthur E. Bostwick (N/A)
An infusion of the leaves is stimulating, sudorific, tonic, and beneficial in colds and chills. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)
Should the contrary occur, administer one or two sudorific draughts, such as wine, warm cider, or a half-glass of brandy, in a quart of warm water, -- treatment which suffices in a short time to restore a healthy state of the belly, -- the animal at the same time being protected by two coverings of wool. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)
It is advised as a sudorific stimulant in low fevers, and to relieve spasms. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)
The leaf of the _Melaleuca minor_ yields, by distillation, the volatile oil of cajeputi, well known as a powerful sudorific, and a useful external application in chronic rheumatism. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
The only important exports, however, are cajeput oil, a sudorific distilled from the leaves of the _Melaleuca Cajuputi_ or white-wood tree; and timber. ❋ Various (N/A)
With a sudorific heat that drove them still farther back the slag boiling on the steel flowed in a gold cascade over a great lip into a second receptacle below. ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)
This exudation is all the more remarkable as the surface is then cold, and hence the term, ` a cold sweat '; whereas the sudorific glands are properly ❋ Unknown (1915)
It removes the sensation of fatigue in the muscles, and increases their functional activity; it allays hunger to a limited extent; it strengthens the heart action; it acts as a diuretic, and increases the excretion of urea; it has a mildly sudorific influence; it counteracts nervous exhaustion and stimulates nerve centers. ❋ Unknown (1909)
And when they had been throughly bathed and washed he made ready for each a most cleanly bed for sudorific treatment. ❋ 1379?-1471 (1905)
So, after changing his clothes and encasing himself in a warm dressing-gown, he proceeded to prepare a sudorific in the shape of a hot gin and water, warming the latter over one of those spirit-lamps which mitigate the austerities of the modern hermit's life. ❋ Arthur Machen (1905)
The only relic of their occupation is a Bible with half the pages torn out, and the rest scrawled with records of bets, recipes for sudorific and other medicines, and a mass of unintelligible memoranda. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)
The car weighed 1,200 lb., and even on ball-bearings was a powerful sudorific. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
