Crossword clues for febrifuge
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Febrifuge \Feb"ri*fuge\, n. [L. febris fever + fugare to put to flight, from fugere to flee: cf. F. f['e]brifuge. see Febrile, Feverfew.] (Med.) A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever. -- a. Antifebrile.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"medicine that reduces fever," 1680s, from French fébrifuge, literally "driving fever away," from Latin febris (see fever) + fugare "cause to flee, put to flight, drive off, chase away, rout," also used in reference to banishment and exile, derived verb from fuga "flight," from PIE *bhug-a-, suffixed form of root *bheug- (1) "to flee" (see fugitive (adj.)).
Wiktionary
n. An antipyretic (fever-reducing) medication.
WordNet
n. any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever [syn: antipyretic]
Usage examples of "febrifuge".
The carminative properties of spearmint are inferior to those of peppermint, and its chief employment is for its diuretic and febrifuge virtues.
Administering a warm, alkaline hand-bath to a fever patient every day, is an excellent febrifuge remedy, being careful not to chill or induce fatigue.
The water in which it was dipped operated as a styptic, as a febrifuge, and possessed other properties as a medical talisman.
Librarians invented that soothing device for the febrifuge of their souls, just as I fall back upon the rites of the kitchen.
Lucy unloaded her jellies and her febrifuges, Mr Crawley frowning at her bitterly the while.
He fed Rhodry infusions of coltsfoot and elecampe to bring up the phlegm, hyssop and pennyroyal to make him sweat, and quaking aspen as a general febrifuge.
This accidental error led to the preparation from the plant of a proprietary nostrum called the 'Electric Febrifuge.
Helminthocorton (Corsican Moss or Gigartina Helminthocorton) is regarded in Europe as an anthelmintic and febrifuge.
He needs saline, antibiotics, a febrifuge, maybe some gamma globulin-“.
In modern Herbal Medicine, the dried herb is more generally now employed, for its astringent and febrifuge properties.
It has been much esteemed as a popular febrifuge, especially in intermittent fever, and has been employed, though less successfully, in typhoid and yellow fevers.
Suggested treatment was febrifuge rather than a diaphoretic, judicious use of aconite for palpitations, willow salic or fellis juice for headache, comfrey, tussilago, or preferred local cough remedy.
Suggested treatment was febrifuge rather than a diaporetic, judicious use of aconite for palpitations, willowsalic or fellis juice for head ache, comfrey, tussilago, or preferred local cough remedy.
In the eastern states of North America (where it is called Indian Chocolate, Cure All and Water Flower) it is much used as a popular remedy in pulmonary consumption, simple dyspepsia and diseases of the bowels consequent on disorders of the stomach, and is valued as a febrifuge and tonic.
A hot stone wrapped in Welsh flannel for the sick mans feet, a long and vigorous rub for chest and throat and ribs, down to the waist, with an ointment of goose-grease impregnated with mustard and other heat-giving herbs, and chest and throat then swathed in a strip of the same flannel, cool cloths on the dry forehead, and a hot draught of wine mulled with spices and borage and other febrifuge herbs.