antiphlogistic
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of antiphlogistic
First recorded in 1735–45; anti- + phlogistic
Example Sentences
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Treatment.—In the first stages of an acute affection absolute quiet must be enforced; local antiphlogistic applications are beneficial.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
A tendency to this may also be overcome by the use of sedatives and antiphlogistic remedies.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
The patient had been affected twelve months before with puerperal peritoneal inflammation, complicated with cerebral symptoms, from which, notwithstanding a most energetic antiphlogistic treatment, she never entirely recovered.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
The Remissions were short, and it partook much of the Nature of the common Inflammatory Fever; and most of them were cured by the antiphlogistic Method.
From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro
The antiphlogistic theory was soon adopted by all French chemists of note.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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