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(pl. noun) - (1) The sixth, eighth, tenth, twelfth, sixteenth, eighteenth, etc. days of a disease, so called because, according to Hippocrates, no crisis occurs on these days, and medicine may be safely administered.
--Ebenezer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898
(2) Medicinal hour, medicinal month, times when the administration of medicine was deemed proper.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1908
January 15, 2018