Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a curative manner; as a curative.

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Examples

  • Physical methods of pest control are applied both preventively and curatively.

    4. Farm and village level storage 1996

  • Perhaps the special volatile oil of the plant, in common with that contained in other herbs similarly aromatic, is curatively antiseptic.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • It has been found that when taken experimentally in varying quantities by healthy provers, many single medicines will produce symptoms precisely according with those of definite recognized maladies; and the same herbs, if administered curatively, in doses sufficiently small to avoid producing their toxical effects, will speedily and surely restore the patient to health by dispelling the said maladies.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • A knowledge of this fact should suggest the probable usefulness of the said Primula, when made into a tincture, and given in small diluted doses thereof, to act curatively for such an eruption if attacking the sufferer from idiopathic causes.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • "But," said he, and with shrewd truth, "it has this bad property, that it disposes those who take it curatively for gout or rheumatism, to be afterwards more frequently attacked with the disease than before."

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • For which reason, in small diluted doses, the same medicament will curatively meet this train of symptoms when occurring as a morbid state.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • They enter the circulation and happily get off at the right spot, to act curatively; but no theories are advanced as to how they aid in the construction of new cells or atoms, or how they aid in the disposal of the old ones.

    The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey

  • Also a tincture is made (H.) from the entire fresh plant, which may be given curatively for frequent, wattery, painless diarrhoea, two or three [205] drops for a dose with water every hour or two until the flux is stayed.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • The anatomical mechanism of the human body, considered as a whole, or divisible into regions, forms a study so closely bearing upon practice, that the surgeon, if he be not also a mechanician, and fully capable of making his anatomical knowledge suit with the common principles of mechanics, while devising methods for furthering the efforts, of Nature curatively, may be said to have studied anatomy to little or no purpose.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Likewise, this decoction, in common with an extract of the herb, has been given curatively for intermittent fever and ague, as well as for some depressed, and disordered states of the nervous system.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

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