sudorific
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of sudorific
1620–30; < New Latin sūdōrificus, equivalent to Latin sūdōr-, stem of sūdor sweat ( see sudoriferous) + -i- -i- + -ficus -fic
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The sudorific effect of the treatment by external warmth described above should be aided by employing diaphoretics.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
This is worse than all: a man might consent to be tickled and pickled—but to iron him for twenty minutes—mercy on us! the very thought is sudorific.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
Uses.—The trunk bark is stimulant and is used as a sudorific in the treatment of fevers.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Boxall very conscientiously recommended a sudorific, and charged him to keep himself well covered up during the night, and on no account to leave his couch.
From Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures by Edouard Riou
Indians in Mexico employ it as a febrifuge and sudorific and also as a remedy for epilepsy.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
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