As the abdomen is usually more or less tender on pressure, it should be covered with a piece of soft flannel, or, still farther to ensure the full diaphoretic effect of the remedies, a warm bath may be had recourse to.
The opiate by the mouth may be advantageously combined with James's powder, and thus assist its diaphoretic action.
The more powerful diaphoretic treacles, such as mithridate, were always a mistake.
A case is given of a child recovering after a profuse sweat, which suggested diaphoretic treatment by warm baths and sack-whey.
As a refrigerant and diaphoretic in febrile affections; taken late in the evening.
A diaphoretic opiate is also very useful, especially in the cough of old people.
As a diaphoretic stimulant, and tonic, in fevers, and as a gargle in sore throat.
A medicine that causes perspiration; a diaphoretic or a sudorific.
A wineglassful every 1/2 hour or hour; as a diaphoretic and expectorant.
Sarsaparilla has been recommended as a mild but efficacious alterative, diaphoreticand tonic.
An excellent stimulating diaphoretic and tonic; in typhoid and putrid fevers, dyspepsia, &c.
An excellent aperient pill, no doubt, and one likely to prove useful in all those cases in which the administration of a mild diaphoretic and stomachic purge is indicated.
From scammony, calomel, cream of tartar, and diaphoretic antimony, equal parts.
It is chiefly used as a pigment; but it is occasionally employed in medicine as a diaphoretic and vermifuge, and in some cutaneous diseases and gout.
The calx of the Regulus thus prepared by nitre is called, on account of the medicinal virtue ascribed to it, Diaphoretic Antimony, or Diaphoretic Mineral.
The water in which the Diaphoreticis washed takes up moreover a portion of the calx of Antimony, which is exceeding finely attenuated, and continues united with the fixed Nitre, and suspended therewith in the liquor.
This matter is a true Calx of Antimony, and differs from Diaphoretic Antimony in nothing but its being still more perfectly calcined.
Diaphoretic Antimony may also be prepared in close vessels, by means of which the vapours that rise during the operation are retained.
Again, if three parts of nitre be taken to one of Antimony, the Regulus is thereby entirely robbed of its phlogiston, and converted to a white calx, which bears the name of Diaphoretic Antimony, or Diaphoretic Mineral.
It is not necessary that Antimony in substance be employed to make the Diaphoretic Mineral: you may, if you please, make use of its Regulus.
Secondly, Liver of Antimony is in a manner half vitrified; Diaphoretic Antimony is, on the contrary, in the form of a powder, the parts of which have no connection together.
The whole is afterwards thrown into hot water, and left steeping therein for several hours, with design to give the water time to dissolve all the saline matters that are mixed with the Diaphoretic Calx.
This calx of Antimony bears the name of Diaphoretic Antimony, or Diaphoretic Mineral: because, being neither emetic nor purgative, it is thought to have the virtue of promoting perspiration.
The sweating which it produces should be kept up by the use of the Compound Extract of Smart-weed in some diaphoretic infusion.
The spirit vapor-bath, with warm, diaphoretic teas, or the Compound Extract of Smart-Weed may be given to favor sweating.
If there is pain, an anodyne anddiaphoretic is proper.
The Compound Extract of Smart-weed should be administered in some diaphoretic herb-tea.
Unless the bath is employed to diminish the quantity of fluids in the body (as in dropsy), the patient may drink some simple, diaphoretic infusion, to hasten or facilitate perspiration.
This is unsurpassed as a diaphoretic agent, and is much more certain in its operation than any simple diaphoretic.
Diaphoretic medicines are also indicated, and the use of Dr.
An injection of some diaphoretic tea, or of alum water, is a good remedy.
Defn: A medicine that causes perspiration; a diaphoretic or a sudorific.
The leaves are used in medicine as an diaphoretic and sialogogue.
Under the name squaw weed, white men have exploited the Golden Ragwort as a female regulator, claiming diuretic, pectoral, diaphoretic and tonic properties.
The white man uses the berries for decorative purposes, and has used the bark for emetic, diaphoretic and antisyphilitic purposes.
White men have used the Indian Cup Plant root for its tonic, diaphoretic and alterative properties.
It has been used by white men in intermittent fevers, also as a diuretic, diaphoretic and sialagogue.
Several species of Erigeron have been substituted by white men for the Canada Fleabane, which is used as a diaphoretic and expectorant.
Eclectic practitioners have used it for its nervine, antispasmodic, expectorant and diaphoretic properties.
Its use is that of an alterative, stimulant and diaphoretic and in this it resembles the official sarsaparilla obtained from tropical America.
Serpentaria is used for its stimulant, tonic, and diaphoretic properties.
The roots are employed in medicine for their tonic, alterative and diaphoretic properties.
For three parts of white glass (without lead) one part of washed diaphoretic antimony is to be taken; the substances are well ground together, and fused in the common way.
It has both a diaphoretic and diuretic action, while it stimulates both the salivary and mucous secretions.
But lately a diaphoretic which far surpasses these in efficiency has been discovered in pilocarpine, the active principle of jaborandi.
It is apparently the most useful and important diaphoretic for this disease which we possess.
USES: Diaphoreticand diuretic in fevers; of doubtful value.
And it acts upon the glands as an Eliminative; being a Diaphoretic and an Expectorant.
Antimony is appropriate as a Diaphoretic in high fevers, and in cases where Opium could hardly be used.
When taken in considerable quantity Alcohol passes out of the system by the skin and kidneys, and thus acts as a Diaphoretic and Diuretic.
It is probable that a diaphoretic dose of Tartar Emetic is actually eliminated from the skin and mucous membranes.
As a Diaphoreticin fevers and inflammations, Opium is to be preferred in cases where the skin is already moist and cool, where the pulse is soft, and the tongue not coated.
Diluent drinks are indispensable adjuncts to a Diaphoretic regimen.
So also do certain Narcotics, among which Opium is conspicuous as the most certain Diaphoretic that we possess, though its other operations prevent it from being applicable in all cases.
Pilocarpine is not only the most powerful sialogogue but also the most powerful diaphoretic known.
The chief therapeutic use of the drug is as a diaphoretic in chronic Bright's disease.
In some we tried to promote Sweats before the Approach of the Fits, by making them drink freely of warm Liquors while they kept in Bed, and took diaphoretic Medicines; and to others we applied Blisters.
Two Agues which had resisted the Use of the Bark were cured by Powder of Camomile-Flowers, Salt of Wormwood, and diaphoretic Antimony; and one by the Use of the aluminous Powders, with Myrrh.
Morton's Powders of Camomile Flowers, Salt of Wormwood, and diaphoretic Antimony; Dr.
It possesses laxative, diaphoretic and alterative properties, and is extensively employed, both internally and externally, for diseases of the skin.
Combined with opium it had more pronounced diaphoretic effects than the compounds of opium and ipecac.
Waring he remarks that it is a good emetic and diaphoretic whenever ipecacuanha is not at hand but that it should be regarded not so much as a substitute for that article as a resource in case of need.
The hot infusion of the leaves is a good diaphoretictaken by the mouth, especially useful in catarrhal bronchitis, and prized as an expectorant by the Chinese and Javanese.
In Java and India they use it for gonorrhoea, and in Mauritius as a diaphoretic and astringent.
Evers experimented with the powder and an infusion of the bark obtaining a strongdiaphoretic action.
It is official in the Pharmacopoeia of India, the dry powdered leaf being the part employed, and its emetic, diaphoretic and expectorant properties are well known in that country.
This plant is official in the Pharmacopoeia of India as an alterative, tonic, diaphoretic and emetic.
In the Philippines it is used extensively as a diaphoretic and emmenagogue and in icterus, intestinal colic and dysmenorrhoea; externally for skin diseases, contusions and atonic ulcers.
Its virtues have been much exaggerated, but it is certainly a good stimulant, diaphoretic and tonic.
The infusion of the leaves, 5-10 grams to the liter, is useful as a sedative and diaphoretic in hysterical and nervous attacks; the infusion of the flowers is similarly used.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diaphoretic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clammy; sticky; sudorific; sweating; sweaty; wilted
