The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antiphlogistic \An`ti*phlo*gis"tic\, a.
(Chem.) Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.
(Med.) Counteracting inflammation.
Antiphlogistic \An`ti*phlo*gis"tic\, n. (Med.)
Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation.
--Coxe.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Counteracting inflammation. 2 Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston. n. (context pharmacology English) A plant or remedy that reduces inflammation.
WordNet
adj. counteracting inflammation
Usage examples of "antiphlogistic".
On the Place he was accosted by the blind man, who, having dragged himself as far as Yonville, in the hope of getting the antiphlogistic pomade, was asking every passer-by where the druggist lived.
Tertullian accused him, and the sagacious Erasistratus introduced his mild antiphlogistic treatment in opposition to the polypharmacy and antidotal practice of his time.
By and by a new reputation will be made by some discontented practitioner, who, tired of seeing patients die with their skins full of whiskey and their brains muddy with opium, returns to a bold antiphlogistic treatment, and has the luck to see a few patients of note get well under it.
The young companion of Miss Crawley, at the conclusion of their interview, came in to receive their instructions, and administered those antiphlogistic medicines which the eminent men ordered.