Medication: alternatives and connections

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office…

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Serving to assuage pain; soothing.

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Good against intestinal worms.

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Same as Antemetic.

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Same as Antepileptic.

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The condition or state of being free from fever.

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Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever.

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Alt. of Antiseptical

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Good against spasms.

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Gently opening the bowels; laxative.

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Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

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Same as Germicide.

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Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic.

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Alt. of Catharical

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Alt. of Counterirritation

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Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.

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Care, heed, or attention.

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Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.

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An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.

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Alt. of Diaphoretical

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The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

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Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat.

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A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.

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Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms.

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Inhaling; used for inhaling.

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The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.

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A bitter principle extracted from hops.

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The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons know…

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Promoting uterine contractions, or parturition.

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Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.

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Alt. of Pharmaceutical

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Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharma…

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The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.

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The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.

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The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.

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The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.

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Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.

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That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for t…

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Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore.

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Making red.

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Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize

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Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute i…

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Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.

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Sweating; perspiring.

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Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs.

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A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.

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Alt. of Therapeutical

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A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

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Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstructi…

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A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer.

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A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.

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To drudge; to toil laboriously.

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Therapeutics.

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The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.

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To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.

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To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.

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An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline;…

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Anything used for healing diseases or wounds; a medicine; a healing application.

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The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

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