antacrid

adj, noun — 2 senses

antacrid

adj

Etymology From anti- + acrid.

1

Medicine, Sciences Archaic Serving to correct acridness of the humours.

  • It is antacrid probably; is called a specific for the epilepsy, and all corrvulsive disorders; and commended also for vertigoes, apoplexies, pleurifies, quartans, worms, and I don't know what.1770, Charles Alston, John Hope, Lectures on the Materia Medica, page 58:
  • Take extract of lead, mercurial ointment, antacrid cerate , of each an equal part. Incorporate them in a mortar or on a tile.1772, Nikolai Detlef Falck, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, page 441:
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  • In syphilis, I directed the patient to take of the antacrid tincture 15 drops in a little water or sassafras tea, three times a day, and dress the chancres with the prepared calomel powder, covered with lint, twice a day.1859 February, Alexander Bryant, “Falck on Venereal”, in Maryland and Virginia Medical Journal, volume 12, page 108:

antacrid

noun

Etymology From anti- + acrid.

1

An antacrid drug.

  • Antacids and antacrids select, from the mineral kingdom, exhibited per anum, vaginam et urethram, to absorb vitiated secretion .1825, “Dr, Nuttall's Lectures”, in The Lancet, page 580:

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