Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A medicine sup posed to possess the property of expelling phlegm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Old Med.) A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Any
medicine supposed toexpel phlegm .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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And if by these means he be freed from the pain, it is enough; but if not, give him the white meconium (Euphorbia peplus?), or, if not it, any other phlegmagogue medicine.
On Fistulae 2007
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