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sudorific

ADJECTIVE
  1. inducing perspiration
NOUN
  1. a medicine that causes or increases sweating

How To Use sudorific In A Sentence

  • The language is a wild mixture of vaquero-cowboy Spanglish and the King James Bible — you ' ll find words like " pulverulence " and " sudorific, " and one character says, without a shred of irony: " Lo, would you behold what has arrived? Southwestern Gothic
  • He prescribed me the usual sudorific, ordered a mustard-plaster to be put on, very deftly slid a five-rouble note up his sleeve, coughing drily and looking away as he did so, and then was getting up to go home, but somehow fell into talk and remained. A Sportsman's Sketches
  • One was an alexipharmic draught, to be taken the last thing at night, another a sudorific, to be administered once in every hour. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
  • The leaf of the _Melaleuca minor_ yields, by distillation, the volatile oil of cajeputi, well known as a powerful sudorific, and a useful external application in chronic rheumatism. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • Perfused skin was observed to sweat in response to administration of sudorific drugs, and some features of the patterns of sweating were similar to those which could be induced by heating or by drugs in conscious animals.
  • In Peruvian herbal medicine the plant is believed to be sudorific, cicatrizant, astringent, stomachic, stimulant, febrifuge, antidiarrhetic, and anti-tumorous.
  • The flowers are excitant and sudorific, and are used in the form of an ointment as a discutient. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • Physicians helped the patient either by raising the body temperature with drugs to help ‘cook the ill humor’ or by assisting to expel it through bloodletting, purges or laxatives, emetics or pukes, and sudorifics or perspirants.
  • An hour's battle with a stoot is the most sudorific experience that I know, even more so than my contests with red snappers at Mazatlan, in Mexico, or bat-fish off the coasts of Florida. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08
  • The roots are astringent and antiseptic, having been given in infusion for ague, and as an excellent cordial sudorific in chills, or for fresh catarrh. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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