The evil of which Fracastorius sang is combated by sudorifics, by unguents of oil and sulphur, and especially by the sand-bath. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The fact that after a good sweating — hot sand and unshaded sun are fairly active sudorifics — all untoward effects (physical and mental) passed away seems to suggest close intimacy between the symptoms of the poison of tarantula and the disease. ❋ Unknown (2003)
That old rogue, Fagon, had brought him to this condition, by administering purgatives and sudorifics of the most violent kind. ❋ D'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, Duchesse (2001)
In the general treatment of febrile diseases, so-called preparatives and digestives are first employed to ripen the humors, after which evacuatives (emetics, cathartics, sudorifics, and occasionally even venesection) are utilized for the discharge of these peccant humors. ❋ Henry Ebenezer Handerson (N/A)
Acting, like all other sudorifics in cases of fever and blood diseases, it carries off by the skin much of the poison, without unduly lowering the vital powers. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)
The fact that after a good sweating -- hot sand and unshaded sun are fairly active sudorifics -- all untoward effects (physical and mental) passed away seems to suggest close intimacy between the symptoms of the poison of tarantula and the disease. ❋ Unknown (1887)
When your gracious letter arrived, I was confined to bed, and under the influence of sudorifics, my illness having been caused by a chill; so it was impossible for me to rise. ❋ Wallace, Lady (1866)
This, and the following, have also a caustic property, and are employed internally as diuretics and sudorifics in chronic rheumatism; and externally, in the treatment of eruptions, and as vesicants. ❋ Unknown (1863)
It was not till the 14th that his physician, Dr. Bruno, finding the sudorifics which he had hitherto employed to be unavailing, began to urge upon his patient the necessity of being bled. ❋ Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 (1854)
What nostrums are your medical sudorifics and diaphoretics! ❋ Unknown (1850)
The mode of treatment, that of mercury and sudorifics, proves the mucous character of the disorder, and, consequently, accounts for its well known tendency to strike the whole animal economy with that prostration of strength which produces a total indifference to the sex. ❋ John Davenport (1833)
He examined me and declared he could cure me by sudorifics without having recourse to the knife. ❋ Unknown (1827)
Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the Chilese doctors used bleeding, blistering, emetics, cathartics, sudorifics, and even glysters. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
Their emetics, cathartics, and sudorifics are all obtained from the vegetable kingdom. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
They promote perspiration, if the skin be kept warm; as camomile tea, and testaceous powders, have been used as sudorifics. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)
Those indeed, which are composed of the vegetable acid, are most generally used as sudorifics; those with the nitrous acid as diuretics; and those with the vitriolic acid as cathartics: while those united with the marine acid enter our common nutriment, as a more general stimulus. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)
