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A refrigerant. Crazed brains should come under a refrigerative treatment. I. Taylor.

a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative. I. Taylor.

f; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.

Treatment of severe nervous disorder, as neurasthenia, by rest and isolation with systematic feeding and the use of massage and electricity.

by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment. Ure.

; inelegant; lacking chasteness or elegance; not in good taste; unsatisfactory in mode of treatment; -- said of literature, language, style, and the like. "The rude Irish books." Spenser. Rude am I in my speech. Shak. Unblemished by my rude translation. Dryden.

It is a white crystalline substance. It is used as an antiseptic, and in its salts in the treatment of rheumatism. Called also hydroxybenzoic acid.

An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium.

The treatment of disease by the injection of blood serum from immune animals.

Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.

Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. "Very shabby fellows." Clarendon.

the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; -- supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.

brew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.

Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.

quid, SO2.Cl2, obtained by the action of phosphorus pentachloride on sulphur trioxide. On treatment with water it decomposes into sulphuric and hydrochloric acids, and is hence called also sulphuric chloranhydride.

ocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.

r fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.

The science, or the scientific treatment, of synonymous words.

Treatment of disease by heat, esp. by hot air.

To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment. To tone down. (a) To cause to give lower tone or sound; to give a lower tone to. (b) (Paint.) To modify, as color, by making it less brilliant or less crude; to modify, as a composition of color, by making it more harmonius. Its thous…