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How To Use Febrifuge In A Sentence

  • The leaves of bael are astringent, a laxative, a febrifuge and an expectorant and are useful in ophthalmia, deafness, inflammations, catarrh, diabetes and asthmatic complaints.
  • Febrifuges such as coneflower, goldenseal, catnip, and hyssop had been tried, without effect. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • He still would take no food but had a little milk, and swallowed without protest another dose of my febrifuge. Drums of Autumn
  • In Peruvian herbal medicine the plant is believed to be sudorific, cicatrizant, astringent, stomachic, stimulant, febrifuge, antidiarrhetic, and anti-tumorous.
  • It is diaphoretic, febrifuge (gets rid of fevers), emetic (in large doses), and laxative.
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  • -- A native of the East Indies, where the roots are used in medicine as a febrifuge and alexipharmic. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
  • ‘There is fever here, sister,’ she said; ‘Richard must call Ambrose, and we must send some of the febrifuge.’ Redgauntlet
  • Mukundukundu: a decoction used as a febrifuge in the same way as quinine; it grows plentifully at Shupanga, and the wood is used as masts for launches. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
  • The water in which it was dipped operated as a styptic, as a febrifuge, and possessed other properties as a medical talisman. The Talisman
  • The traditional use of stem bark as a febrifuge in relapsing fevers was confirmed as an extract of stem bark reduced pyrexia in comparative biological tests.
  • Italian, but could understand that the cordial was a febrifuge of some sort. The Woodlanders
  • Guiana; among simarubaceous plants, the Quassia amara, celebrated in the feverish plains of Surinam; among terebinthaceous plants, the Rhus glabrum; among euphorbiaceous plants, the Croton cascarilla; among composite plants, the Eupatorium perfoliatum, the febrifuge qualities of which are known to the savages of North America. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • His mother evidently expected that both he and she herself would be relieved on the spot, but the Apothecary durst not be hopeful, though he gave the child a draught which he called a febrifuge, and which put him to sleep, and bade the lady take another of the like if she wished for a good night's rest. Grisly Grisell
  • For its action as a febrifuge, doses of 6 decigrams are administered in a cachet or suspended in water.
  • “If before tomorrow morning we have not given him a more energetic febrifuge,” said the reporter, “Herbert will be dead.” The Mysterious Island
  • It is certain that we have got the knowledge of the most potent febrifuge in our pharmacopoeia from the natives of another country. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
  • The stem bark is also used as an astringent and febrifuge for relapsing fevers.
  • Today garlic is still used as a febrifuge to assist fevers.
  • -- The bark of the trunk is well known as a febrifuge and emmenagogue in India. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
  • Most of these are true cinchona-trees, but there are also many kinds of the genus _Exostemma_, whose bark is collected as a febrifuge, and passes in commerce under the name of _Peruvian bark_. Popular Adventure Tales
  • It is diaphoretic, febrifuge (gets rid of fevers), emetic (in large doses), and laxative.

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