sudorific
IPA: sˈudɝˈɪfɪk
noun
- (pharmacology) A medicine that produces sweating.
adjective
- In a state of perspiration; covered in sweat; sudoriferous, sweaty.
- (chiefly pharmacology) That produces sweating.
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Examples of "sudorific" in Sentences
- It was used as a diuretic and sudorific.
- Among other artworks sudorific inlaid work can be mentioned.
- It is advised as a sudorific stimulant in low fevers, and to relieve spasms.
- I can say from experience, that it is a powerful sudorific, and very efficacious in a cold.
- 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.
- The only important exports, however, are cajeput oil, a sudorific distilled from the leaves of the _Melaleuca Cajuputi_ or white-wood tree; and timber.
- 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.
- It is so strong a sudorific, that the natives never use any other for promoting sweating, although they are perfectly acquainted with sassafras, salsaparilla, the esquine and others.
- 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.
- Besides the sudorific virtue which the esquine possesses in common with the salsaparilla, it has the property of making the hair grow, and the women among the natives use it successfully with this view.
- 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.
- Should the contrary occur, administer one or two sudorific draughts, such as wine, warm cider, or a half-glass of brandy, in a quart of warm water, -- treatment which suffices in a short time to restore a healthy state of the belly, -- the animal at the same time being protected by two coverings of wool.
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