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A sternutatory substance or medicine.

The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation.

A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.

A medicine for diseases of the mouth. Dunglison.

nce of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.

ous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.

ed as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.

nal teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student. Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book. Shak.

A medicine or mixture; a potion. Shak.

Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.

A styptic medicine.

To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever.

; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. Shak.

The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use. Succus entericus (. Etym: [NL., literally, juice of the intestines.] (Physiol.) A fluid secreted in small by certain glands (probably the glands of Lieberkühn) of the small intestines. Its exact action is somewhat doubtful.

A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic.

To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.

A medical fume. [Obs.] Harvey.

rs of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese Rhus vernicifera, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer.

The musky root of an Asiatic umbelliferous plant, Ferula Sumbul. It is used in medicine as a stimulant. [Written also sumbal.] -- Sum*bul"ic, a.

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