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A medicine designed to improve the condition of the blood.

A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.

Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (.

f or pertaining to the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine on the principles of the hermetic philosophy, and which made much use, as a remedy, of an alkali and an acid; as, hermetic medicine.

A medicine that causes perspiration; a diaphoretic or a sudorific.

A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark. Dunglison.

ates to his disciples. Such an oath is still administered to candidates for graduation in medicine.

The science of veterinary medicine; the pathology of the horse.

vy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. Gray. Horse-radish tree. (Bot.) See Moringa.

A diluent drink or medicine. [Obs.]

A hydragogue medicine, usually a cathartic or diuretic.

A hydrotic medicine.

fensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.

Of or pertaining to medicine, or to medical men.

Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by che…

d by the dry distillation of a bituminous mineral containing fossil fishes. It is used in medicine as a remedy in some forms of skin diseases.

esign, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress. Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service, Improper for a slave. Shak. And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good; to their improper, Ill. Pope.…

An incarnative medicine.

To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines. [Obs.]