How To Use febrifuge In A Sentence
- Italian, but could understand that the cordial was a febrifuge of some sort. The Woodlanders
- It is diaphoretic, febrifuge (gets rid of fevers), emetic (in large doses), and laxative.
- Most of these are true cinchona-trees, but there are also many kinds of the genus _Exostemma_, whose bark is collected as a febrifuge, and passes in commerce under the name of _Peruvian bark_. Popular Adventure Tales
- -- The bark of the trunk is well known as a febrifuge and emmenagogue in India. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
- Today garlic is still used as a febrifuge to assist fevers.
- The stem bark is also used as an astringent and febrifuge for relapsing fevers.
- It is certain that we have got the knowledge of the most potent febrifuge in our pharmacopoeia from the natives of another country. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
- “If before tomorrow morning we have not given him a more energetic febrifuge,” said the reporter, “Herbert will be dead.” The Mysterious Island
- For its action as a febrifuge, doses of 6 decigrams are administered in a cachet or suspended in water.
- 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. Grisly Grisell
