sudorifics

The fact that after a good sweating — hot sand and unshaded sun are fairly active sudorifics — all untoward effects (physical and mental) passed away seems to suggest close intimacy between the symptoms of the poison of tarantula and the disease.

My Tropic Isle 2003

The evil of which Fracastorius sang is combated by sudorifics, by unguents of oil and sulphur, and especially by the sand-bath.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

That old rogue, Fagon, had brought him to this condition, by administering purgatives and sudorifics of the most violent kind.

The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

In the general treatment of febrile diseases, so-called preparatives and digestives are first employed to ripen the humors, after which evacuatives (emetics, cathartics, sudorifics, and occasionally even venesection) are utilized for the discharge of these peccant humors.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

That old rogue, Fagon, had brought him to this condition, by administering purgatives and sudorifics of the most violent kind.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Acting, like all other sudorifics in cases of fever and blood diseases, it carries off by the skin much of the poison, without unduly lowering the vital powers.

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Robert Jennings

The fact that after a good sweating -- hot sand and unshaded sun are fairly active sudorifics -- all untoward effects (physical and mental) passed away seems to suggest close intimacy between the symptoms of the poison of tarantula and the disease.

My Tropic Isle 1887

When your gracious letter arrived, I was confined to bed, and under the influence of sudorifics, my illness having been caused by a chill; so it was impossible for me to rise.

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826 Wallace, Lady 1866

This, and the following, have also a caustic property, and are employed internally as diuretics and sudorifics in chronic rheumatism; and externally, in the treatment of eruptions, and as vesicants.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

It was not till the 14th that his physician, Dr. Bruno, finding the sudorifics which he had hitherto employed to be unavailing, began to urge upon his patient the necessity of being bled.

Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854