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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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173 words match “REMEDY”

ANTIHYDROPIC a.
A remedy for dropsy.
ANTIHYPOCHONDRIAC a.
A remedy for hypochondria.
ANTIHYSTERIC a.
A remedy for hysteria.
ANTIICTERIC a.
A remedy for jaundice.
ANTILOIMIC n.
A remedy against the plague. Brande & C.
ANTIMEPHITIC a.
A remedy against mephitic gases. Dunglison.
ANTINEPHRITIC a.
An antinephritic remedy.
ANTIODONTALGIC a.
A remedy for toothache.
ANTIPERIODIC n.
A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
ANTIPSORIC a.
An antipsoric remedy.
ANTISCORBUTIC a.
A remedy for scurvy.
ANTISIALAGOGUE n.
A remedy against excessive salivation.
ANTISPLENETIC a.
Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. -- n.
APHAKIA n.
tion caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. Dunglison.
ARCANUM n.
A secret remedy; an elixir. Dunglison.
ASTIGMATIC a.
Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses.
ATONIC n.
A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation. Dunglison.
AUGEAN a.
n stable (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.
AZOTH n.
The universal remedy of Paracelsus.
BEZOAR n.
the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.
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