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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A medicine sup posed to possess the property of expelling phlegm.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete Any medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Old Med.) A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

Etymologies

  1. Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “And if by these means he be freed from the pain, it is enough; but if not, give him the white meconium (Euphorbia peplus?), or, if not it, any other phlegmagogue medicine.”

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