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

Pectoral :: Pectoral (n.) A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs..

Melanagogue :: Melanagogue (n.) A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.

Jaborandi :: Jaborandi (n.) The native name of a South American rutaceous shrub (Pilocarpus pennatifolius). The leaves are used in medicine as an diaphoretic and sialogogue.

Squill :: Squill (n.) A European bulbous liliaceous plant (Urginea, formerly Scilla, maritima), of acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties used in medicine. Called also sea onion..

Utility :: Utility (n.) The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines..

Adiaphorous :: Adiaphorous (a.) Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines..

Species :: Species (n.) A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

Gerocomy :: Gerocomy (n.) That part of medicine which treats of regimen for old people.

Magistral :: Magistral (n.) A sovereign medicine or remedy.

Catmint :: Catmint (n.) A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it..

Preventive :: Preventive (a.) Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease..

Pharmaceutics :: Pharmaceutics (n.) The science of preparing medicines.

Practice :: Practice (n.) Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice..

Pharmacy :: Pharmacy (n.) A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.

Ptisan :: Ptisan (n.) An aqueous medicine, containing little, if any, medicinal agent; a tea or tisane..

Tobacco :: Tobacco (n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste..

Bechic :: Bechic (n.) A medicine for relieving coughs.

Febrifuge :: Febrifuge (n.) A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.

Erthine :: Erthine (n.) A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory..

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