diet-drinkn.
A drink prescribed and prepared for medicinal purposes.
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diet-drink1600
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wound-drink1657
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1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood vi. 76 We gaue the Brewers Diet-drinke a wipe.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 317 As for the diet drink made of cow milk..I have written already in my treatise of herbs.
1693 W. Oliver in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 909 A pleasant..soft Water..which the Country People use in Fevers as their ordinary Diet-drink.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §9 The leaves and tender tops of pine and fir are..used for diet drinks.
1849 C. A. Harris Dict. Dental Sci. 214/2 Diet Drink, the decoction of sarsaparilla and mezereon. The Lisbon diet drink, is the most celebrated.
1853 G. Bird Urinary Deposits (ed. 4) xiv. 432 The host of apozems, diuretic decoctions, and diet-drinks, in which renal stimulants abound.
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