febrifuge

IPA: fˈɛbrʌfjudʒ

Examples of "febrifuge" in Sentences

Italian, but could understand that the cordial was a febrifuge of some sort.
-- The bark of the trunk is well known as a febrifuge and emmenagogue in India.
‘There is fever here, sister,’ she said; ‘Richard must call Ambrose, and we must send some of the febrifuge.’
He still would take no food but had a little milk, and swallowed without protest another dose of my febrifuge.
“If before tomorrow morning we have not given him a more energetic febrifuge,” said the reporter, “Herbert will be dead.”
The water in which it was dipped operated as a styptic, as a febrifuge, and possessed other properties as a medical talisman.
It is certain that we have got the knowledge of the most potent febrifuge in our pharmacopoeia from the natives of another country.
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.
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.