alexipharmic

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ALEXIPH'ARMIC, adjective [Gr. to expel, and poison.] Expelling poison; antidotal; sudorific; that has the quality of expelling poison or infection by sweat. ALEXIPH'ARMIC, noun A medicine that is intended to obviate the effects of poison; an antidote to poison or infection. By the Greeks, the word was used for an amulet.
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