How To Use Febrifuge In A Sentence
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Italian, but could understand that the cordial was a febrifuge of some sort.
The Woodlanders
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It is diaphoretic, febrifuge (gets rid of fevers), emetic (in large doses), and laxative.
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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
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-- The bark of the trunk is well known as a febrifuge and emmenagogue in India.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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Today garlic is still used as a febrifuge to assist fevers.
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The stem bark is also used as an astringent and febrifuge for relapsing fevers.
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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
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“If before tomorrow morning we have not given him a more energetic febrifuge,” said the reporter, “Herbert will be dead.”
The Mysterious Island
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For its action as a febrifuge, doses of 6 decigrams are administered in a cachet or suspended in water.
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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
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Guiana; among simarubaceous plants, the Quassia amara, celebrated in the feverish plains of Surinam; among terebinthaceous plants, the Rhus glabrum; among euphorbiaceous plants, the Croton cascarilla; among composite plants, the Eupatorium perfoliatum, the febrifuge qualities of which are known to the savages of North America.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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The leaves of bael are astringent, a laxative, a febrifuge and an expectorant and are useful in ophthalmia, deafness, inflammations, catarrh, diabetes and asthmatic complaints.
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The traditional use of stem bark as a febrifuge in relapsing fevers was confirmed as an extract of stem bark reduced pyrexia in comparative biological tests.
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The water in which it was dipped operated as a styptic, as a febrifuge, and possessed other properties as a medical talisman.
The Talisman
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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.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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‘There is fever here, sister,’ she said; ‘Richard must call Ambrose, and we must send some of the febrifuge.’
Redgauntlet
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-- A native of the East Indies, where the roots are used in medicine as a febrifuge and alexipharmic.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
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It is diaphoretic, febrifuge (gets rid of fevers), emetic (in large doses), and laxative.
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In Peruvian herbal medicine the plant is believed to be sudorific, cicatrizant, astringent, stomachic, stimulant, febrifuge, antidiarrhetic, and anti-tumorous.
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He still would take no food but had a little milk, and swallowed without protest another dose of my febrifuge.
Drums of Autumn
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Febrifuges such as coneflower, goldenseal, catnip, and hyssop had been tried, without effect.
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