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sialagogue, n. and a. Med.|ˈsaɪələgəʊg|
Also sialogogue.
[a. F. sialagogue (1752), or ad. mod.L. sialagogus, -um, f. Gr. σίαλον saliva + ἀγωγός leading, drawing forth: cf. cholagogue, emmenagogue.]
A. n. A medicine which has the effect of producing a flow of saliva.
α1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) II. 461 Any acrid drug, as pyrethrum, held in the mouth acts as a sialagogue externally by stimulating the excretory ducts of the salivary glands. 1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 448/1 Remote sialagogues are first received into the system by the stomach or other channels. 1855Garrod Materia Medica 231 When chewed it acts as a sialagogue, and is sometimes used in relaxed states of the uvula and tonsils.
β1783Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) X. 8153/1 Sialogogues, medicines which promote the salivary discharge. 1834Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 662 Admitting all that can be said in favour of employing mercury as a sialogogue. 1859J. Tomes Dental Surg. 490 The local remedies for toothache,..excepting only sialogogues.
B. adj. Inducing a flow of saliva.
1855Garrod Materia Medica 54 Its sialagogue power is shown in the increase of the salivary fluid and mucous secretions of the mouth. 1876Bartholow Mat. Med. & Therap. (1879) 262 It has remarkable sialagogue property. |