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A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever. -- a.

A febrifuge.

Febrifuge.

A febrifuge.

e bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]

n Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.

The bark of any species of cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.

An extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.

nsis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge.

An organic base obtained from quinoline. It is used as a febrifuge, and resembles kairine.

ted to the mahogany, which it resembles in the quality of the wood. The bark is used as a febrifuge.

m a plant (Ophelia) of the Gentian family as a bitter yellowish sirup, used in India as a febrifuge and tonic.

tracted from Phillyrea as a bitter white crystalline substance. It is sometimes used as a febrifuge.

A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspnoea of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar pr…

s extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge. [Written also chinidine.]

ny of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc. [Written also chinine.]