alexipharmacumn.

1590 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Sclopotarie Index (at cited word) Another Alexipharmacon for rich men.

1591 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Breefe Aunswere Expos. I. Aubertus f. 34^v It dooth mittigate that disease [sc. falling sicknesse] and driueth it away, for it is his proper Alexipharmacum.

1632 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 4) 377 With their Alexipharmacums, Panaceas, Mummia's, vnguentum Armarium, & such Magneticall cures.

1639 E. Pagitt Relation Christians 74 Earnest Prayer, endlesse Devotion, volumnes of penitentials, Ninives fastings, Peters weeping, Pauls conversion, is the Metredate and true Alexipharmacon to cure this Vlcer, to heale this never enough to be lamented Schisme.

1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion 49 To which I should add the Testimony of the Learned Michael Mayerus, who pronounces Mercury to be an Alexipharmacum against divers Diseases, and particularly the Plague.

1721 F. Bellinger Treat. Small-pox 16 Neurotick, Volatil, Cephalick Medicines, mix'd with Anodines, and such as will cause Sweat without an Inflamation (all of which is to be obtain'd by a Right proceeding, and the Alexipharmacon here proposed).

1747 G. Berkeley Two Lett. conc. Tar-water in Plague 8 Tarwater..is a great alexipharmacum and cordial.

1819 Q. Jrnl. Foreign Med. & Surg. Nov. 13 As to preventitives, Romani thinks with Crato that the true alexipharmacon of the plague is only to be found with God.

1839 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl I. 83 Dis is a most noted alexipharmacum against quartan agues, composed of many roots, herps and spices; dis I call de lampas vitæ.

1958 L. Thorndike Hist. Magic & Exper. Sci. VIII. 90 Schröder himself names both galega and gentian as alexipharmaca against poison and the pest.