单词 | aloetic |
释义 | aloeticadj.n. A. adj. 1. Medicine. Of a laxative, purgative, or other medicinal preparation: containing or consisting of aloes (see aloe n. 3a). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > purgative > plant-based scammonite1601 scammoniate1620 aloetic1657 scammonial1657 aloetical1676 1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rowland tr. J. Johnstone Idea Pract. Physick viii. 65/1 They are best of al Evacuated by Aloetick Remedies. 1726 R. Towne Treat. Dis. W.-Indies 182 During the Extraction of the [Guinea] Worm, the Patient should be plyed with bitter Aloetick and other Anthelmintick Medicines, in order to dislodge the Worm the sooner from his Tenement. 1754 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. 152 In which case all aloetic medicines ought to be avoided. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. iv, in Fraser's Mag. June 670/2 A perceptible smell of aloetic drugs. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 536 Salines, and not aloetic purgatives. 1920 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 7 Feb. 393/1 Ordinary doses of aloetic pills fail when used as abortifacients. 1984 Pharmacy in Hist. 26 171/1 Physicians still prescribed evil-smelling and foul-tasting copaiba and turpentine emulsions,..Dover and aloetic powders, unsightly pills, and bitter tinctures. 2002 E. L. Furdell Publishing & Med. Early Mod. Eng. vii. 140 The pills were a mild aloetic purgative containing colocynth and gamboge. 2. aloetic acid n. [after French acide aloétique (H. Braconnot 1808, in Ann. de chimie 68 29 in fuller form acide jaune aloétique : compare quot. 1810)] Chemistry (now rare) a yellow, crystalline, acidic compound prepared from aloes, forming purple-red solutions in boiling water. Aloetic acid is a nitrated derivative of anthraquinone; C15H6N4O13. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > acids obtained from plants or trees > [adjective] > miscellaneous others aloetic acid1810 anemonic acid1838 azohumic1863 ipecacuanhic1865 anilic1868 ulmous1868 alorcinic acid1872 racemic1892 racemized1896 lauroyl1939 1810 Philos. Mag. 36 228 The yellow aloetic acid, when well washed and dried, is of a very fine yellow colour, and extremely bitter. 1855 J. Pereira Elem. Materia Med. i. ii. 196 By the action of nitric acid on aloes [Schunk] obtained..aloetic acid. 1903 A. I. Cohn Tests & Reagents 278 Extract aloetic acid with strong boiling alcohol. It is insol[uble]. in cold alcohol, is orange colored and crystalline. 2003 A. Barcroft & A. Myskja Aloe Vera ii. 38 (table) Aloetic acid (antibiotic). B. n. An aloetic medicinal preparation; spec. a purgative or laxative containing aloes. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > purgative > plant-derived scammonyc1000 lign-aloesc1374 hiera picra1379 rhubarbc1390 aloea1398 cassia fistulaa1398 coloquintidaa1398 senec1400 turpethc1400 coloquintc1420 diagrydium1436 lignum aloes1525 rhabarbarum1533 xylaloes1540 manna1541 scilla1548 hyera?1550 emblic1555 diasenna1562 colocynth1565 tragonce1575 pinyon1577 mechoacan1587 lignum aquilae1600 gamboge1615 dragon-root1621 helleborism1621 diaprune1625 alhandal1630 makinboy1652 luskard1653 diagrydiate1657 physic nut1657 aloetic1661 scammoniate1665 jalap1675 aloedary1683 coloquinto1683 Briançon manna1688 liquorice powder1712 coloquintid1732 castor oil1746 senna-tea1752 higry pigry1773 Turkey rhubarb1789 argel1803 hickery-pickery1816 cathartin1823 aloin1828 croton oil1829 jalapin1832 syrmaea1833 bryonin1836 gambogic acid1837 Podophyllum1844 podophyllin1851 geropiga1852 hicra picra1857 Montpellier turpeth1860 picra1860 tallicoona oil1866 scammonin1868 pharbitisin1873 cascara sagrada1879 senna-draught1879 tambor-oil1890 syrup of figs1897 pharbitin1899 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. F4v Aloeticks. 1683 W. Harris Pharmacologia xv. 296 Nay Aloedaria or Aloeticks I have known to prove worse to some, than, ever I could observe Scammoniates carefully administred..to any Constitutions. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 267 Some gross corpulent persons..will require aloetics. 1791 Edinb. New Dispensatory (ed. 3) 527 The general purposes of aloetics. 1845 N.Y. Jrnl. Med. 4 164 This is the condition of the blood drawn from persons who are in the habit of using aloetics. 1913 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Sept. 806 Iron, aloetics, animal food, and exercise in the open air are recommended. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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