单词 | epispastic |
释义 | epispasticadj.n. Medicine. A. adj. Drawing out humours; blistering. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > drawing drawinga1398 attractivea1400 extractive1599 attractory1641 eductive1657 epispastic1657 attrahent1661 trahent1661 1657 Physical Dict. Epispastick, blistering plaisters, or any other strong drawing plaister. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. iii. 133 Vinegar of Cantharides (Epispastic). B. n. A blister; a substance used for blisters. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for raising blisters > [noun] blister?1541 vesicatory1604 vesicant1661 epispastic1682 epipastic1710 pustulant1861 1682 N. Grew Disc. Tasts in Plants vi. iv. §9 in Anat. Plants 286 A Blister..the common Effect of Fire, or any strong Epispastick. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 44 By plentiful..Epispasticks..appease the angry rage of the Spirits. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xc. 330 Thy epispastics may strip the parchment from thy plotting head. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 7 Ranunculus flammula and sceleratus are powerful epispastics. 1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. iii. 498 An epispastic is a remedy which excites inflammation and vesication. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.n.1657 |
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