Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A dose of physic for a horse.
- n. A horn or other instrument by which medicine is administered to a horse.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A dose of physic for a horse.
- n. The appliance by which the dose is administered.
Examples
“It gives me an estate of seven yearsÂ’ health; in which time I will make a lip at the physician: the most sovereign prescription in Galen is but empiricutic, and, to this preservative, of no better report than a horse-drench.”
“He has no respect for the old authoritative prescriptions, if they fail in practice, whether they come in Galen's name, or another's; but he is just as severe upon 'the empiricutics,' on the other hand, and he objects to 'a horse-drench 'for the human constitution in the greater congregation, as much as he does in that distinctively complex delicate structure which the single individual human frame in itself constitutes.”
“_Galen_ is but empiricutic, and to _this_ preservative of no better report than a horse-drench. ”
“Galen is but empiricutic, and, to this preservative, of no better report than a horse-drench.”
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