antiapoplecticadj.n.

1670 tr. J. Hartmann Praxis Chymiatricæ 29 in tr. O. Croll Bazilica Chymica The Nostrills must be also anointed with Antapoplectick Balsom [L. Balsamo antapoplectico].

1685 E. Prat tr. B. Christini Secrets Lazarus Riverius lxxi. 107 (heading) His Anti-Apoplectic Balsam [L. Balsamum Apopleticum nostrum].

1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 468 Bleedings, Purges, Diureticks, and Antapoplectick Medicines.

1722 P. Blair in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 35 They are also Pectoral, Anti-Apoplectick.

1824 Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 5 i. 143 They [sc. cups made of the shell of the coco-nut] have been supposed to give an antiapoplectic quality to intoxicating liquors.

1909 A. A. Ramseyer tr. J. G. Rademacher Universal & Organ Remedies iii. 16 In enumerating some diseases in which copper proved curative, the reader is warned to remember that it is not recommended as anti-apoplectic, or anti-rheumatic, etc., but as a remedy against all those diseases which are merely different forms of an affection of the whole organism.

1994 L. Brockliss in A. La Berge & M. Feingold French Med. Culture 19th Cent. ii. 103 The lightly apoplectic Comtesse de Souteron..had endured a variety of anti-apoplectic liqueurs.

2004 Econ. Bot. 58 463/2 They [sc. new uses of Sambucus nigra] are the following..: adipsic, antiacetonemic, antiapoplectic, antibrucellosic, [etc.].

1715 tr. J. Groeneveld Grounds of Physick v. xxvii. 264 Antapoplecticks, operate by the Smallness and Volatility of their Parts, by which impressing a greater Motion upon the Spirits in the Brain.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Apoplectica, a name used by some for what we more properly call Antapoplectics.

1846 Dublin Q. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 2 392 Pivati proposed to electrify his patients by cylinders filled with medicines of all kinds, as diureties [sic], antiapoplectics, sudorifics, &c.

1866 Economist 16 June 725/3 (advt.) During several centuries its efficacy as an anti-apoplectic, an aperient, a digestive and anti-spasmodic (when diluted with water) has never been questioned.

2005 Nuncio 20 154 After examining the old man, Pivati prepared the ‘medicated tube’: he filled a glass cylinder with an anti-apoplectic, placed two corks at the extremities, [etc.].