alexipharmic

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.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England 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.

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

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

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 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.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 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.

Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861

-- A native of the East Indies, where the roots are used in medicine as a febrifuge and alexipharmic.

Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 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.

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West 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.

The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 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.”

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 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

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851