vermifugeadj.n.
/ˈvəːmᵻfjuː(d)ʒ/, U.S. /ˈvərməˌfjudʒ/ Medicine.
A. adj.
Causing or promoting the evacuation or expulsion of worms or other animal parasites from the intestines; anthelmintic.In some instances perhaps an attributive use of the noun.
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anthelmintic1684
vermifuge1697
vermifugous1726
vermifugal1830
taenifuge1844
1697 in T. Rokeby Brief Mem. (1861) 58 Vermifuge pills, a box 3s. 4d.
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 54 Their vermifuge quality..justly intitles them to particular attention.
1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 468 The physician had suspected the presence of worms, and prescribed vermifuge medicines accordingly.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sindhooka, Sinduya, vernacular names in India for the Vitex Negundo, the fruit of which is considered vermifuge.
1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. v. 701 The administration of vermifuge drugs.
B. n.
A medicament or substance having the power or property of expelling worms from the intestines; an anthelmintic.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > remedies for parasitic infections > [noun] > vermifuge or anthelminthic
scolecobrotic1661
anthelmintic1684
helminthagogue1704
vermifuge1718
taenifuge1844
vermicide1849
taenicide1857
oxyuricide1864
oxyurifuge1881
ficin1930
niclosamide1962
praziquantel1975
1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis ii. iv. 110 It is used hardly in any other Intention in Medicine, than as a Vermifuge.
1764 Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 14 Vermifuges of the most celebrated kind,..and such other medicines as tend..to carry off or destroy the worms, were assiduously administered.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 313 In the former [class of anthelmintics] we may rank..all the oleaginous vermifuges, as oil of olives, beech-nuts, castor, and turpentine.
1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) xiii. 292 Arsenic was once in great repute as a tonic and vermifuge.
1871 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (new ed.) 404 Anthelmintics are employed for the following purposes:—..2. The indirect, or vermifuges, to expel any worms, living or dead.
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