antacrid

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ acrid.

Adjective

antacrid (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, medicine) Serving to correct acridness of the humours.
    • 1770, Charles Alston, John Hope, Lectures on the Materia Medica, page 58:
      It is antacrid probably; is called a specific for the epilepsy, and all corrvulsive disorders; and commended also for vertigoes, apoplexies, pleurifies, quartans, worms, and I don't know what.
    • 1772, Nikolai Detlef Falck, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, page 441:
      Take extract of lead, mercurial ointment, antacrid cerate , of each an equal part. Incorporate them in a mortar or on a tile.
    • 1859 February, Alexander Bryant, “Falck on Venereal”, in Maryland and Virginia Medical Journal, volume 12, page 108:
      In syphilis, I directed the patient to take of the antacrid tincture 15 drops in a little water or sassafras tea, three times a day, and dress the chancres with the prepared calomel powder, covered with lint, twice a day.

Noun

antacrid (plural antacrids)

  1. An antacrid drug.
    • 1825, “Dr, Nuttall's Lectures”, in The Lancet, page 580:
      Antacids and antacrids select, from the mineral kingdom, exhibited per anum, vaginam et urethram, to absorb vitiated secretion .

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.