Bovet

[ boh-vey, -vet ]

noun

Daniel, 1907–92, Italian pharmacologist, born in Switzerland: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1957.

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Three Children of William Bovet were thought to have been bewitched by her, whereof one was dead.
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Bovet, in his Pandæmonium , gives an account of the Demon of Spraiton, in 1682.
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British Dictionary definitions for Bovet

Bovet

/ (French bovɛ) /

noun

Daniel . 1907–92, Italian pharmacologist, born in Switzerland, noted for his pioneering work on antihistamine drugs. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1957

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