sudorific

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We must regard it rather as a sudorific for feverish blood and brains.

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  1. adjective Causing or increasing sweat.
  2. noun A sudorific medicine. Also called sudatory.

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  • I HAVE been now two days confined to the house, and taking antispasmodics, black powders, and elderflower tea as a sudorific, because I have had a catarrh, a cold in my head, sore throat, headache, pains in my eyes, and earache; but, thank God, I am now better, and hope to be able to go out tomorrow, being Sunday. —  The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol.1.
  • That pleases all those that until now had to wear heavy sudorific earmuffs. —  Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox
  • In small doses, the drug is a sudorific; respiratory failure. —  Find Me A Cure
  • The whole plant is antiseptic, aperient, astringent, diuretic, emmenagogue, febrifuge, narcotic, sedative, styptic and sudorific. —  Find Me A Cure
  • Boxall very conscientiously recommended a sudorific, and charged him to keep himself well covered up during the night, and on no account to leave his couch. —  Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures
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  1. New Latin sūdōrificus : Latin sūdor, sweat; see sweid- in Indo-European roots + Latin -ficus, -fic.

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  1. = French sudorifique = Spanish sudorífico = Portuguese Italian sudorifico, from Latin sudor, sweat, + facere, make, do.
 

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