| 单词 | fever powder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfever powder fever powder n. [originally after post-classical Latin pulvis febrilis (1669 or earlier)] now historical any of various medicinal powders used for the treatment of fevers.Used esp. with reference to a powder patented by the English physician Robert James (?1703–76), the main ingredient of which was antimony. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > febrifuge or antipyretic > [noun] > powder fever powder1682 James's powdera1774 salol1887 1682 J. Partridge tr. A. von Mynsicht Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum v. 109 Pulvis Febrilis probatus, or an approved Feaver-powder. 1748 R. James Diss. Fevers 14 At this Period he took thirty Grains of the Fever Powder. 1853 Trans. Med. Soc. State N.Y. 189 I remarked, jocosely, that I had often feared that they were really fever powders, in other words calculated, in some instances, to perpetuate instead of curing the fever. 1921 A. Dobson Later Ess. 92 He was anxious to give a fair trial to his favourite recipe, that Fever Powder of Dr. James so dear to his contemporaries from royalty downwards. 2014 C. Hamlin More Than Hot iv. 99 By the 1770s whoever and wherever one was in Britain's wide realm, one's fever could be cured by Dr. James's fever powder. < as lemmas |
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