单词 | revulsive |
释义 | revulsiveadj.n. Medicine. Now rare. A. adj. Of a medicine or treatment: that produces revulsion (revulsion n. 1). Also: of or relating to revulsion. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [adjective] > treatment of one part to cure another revulsive1585 revellent1680 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. iii. 413 Likewise reuulsiue bludletting, & boxing, ligatures and frications on the contrarie side, shall dislodge the humor of his place. 1616 T. Adams Dis. Soule 7 Either by cutting a veine, purging, revulsiue or locall remedies. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxxviii. 522 Blood-letting..is also an operation revulsive and derivative. 1710 J. Floyer Pulse Watch II. 462 This I call a revulsive Friction, to draw the Blood and Spirits towards the Limbs. 1753 N. Torriano tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 7 Blisters..might have also been of great Service in this Case,..on account of their revulsive Effect. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 524 When cold, applied in this manner, takes off either clonic or entastic spasm, it is by a revulsive power. 1856 G. B. Wood Treat. Therapeutics & Pharmacol. I. 53 The revulsive influence of remedies is peculiarly indicted in cases of metastasis, or of diseases which are especially liable to assume the metastatic form. 1883–4 Med. Ann. 17/1 Its action is said to be sedative and revulsive. 1977 R. B. Tisserand Art of Aromatherapy iv. 63 In this respect they possess between them in varying degrees antiseptic, revulsive, hypnotic, aphrodisiac, tonic, vesicatory and analgesic properties. B. n. A medicine or treatment used to produce revulsion. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [noun] > treatment of one part to cure another > a treatment revellent1661 revulsive1661 revulsant1824 1661 J. Fell Life Hammond in H. Hammond Wks. (1684) IV. 27 In his sicknesses..he never intermitted study, but rather re-inforc'd it..as the most frequent revulsive and diversion of pain. 1663 R. Bayfield Τῆς Ἰατρικῆς Κάρτος cxxiii. 182 The best Physicians use all Astringents to the part, with Revulsives, and burn the Artery with a hot Iron. 1731 T. Apperley Observ. in Physick 133 To apply them, as some do, in hot Fevers, by way of Revulsives, is Nonsense. 1755 C. Perry Mech. Acct. Hysteric Passion 172 I now..accordingly prescribed him a course of nervous medicines.—But not absolutely quiting [sic] alternatives and revulsives. 1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica i. 33 This is the effect we wish to produce, when we administer the remedies called revulsives. 1890 Times 11 Jan. 5/1 Towards 5 o'clock revulsives were applied to the head. 1908 F. H. Bartlett tr. N. Ortner Treatm. Internal Dis. 142 The symptomatic therapy relieves the inflammation by local revulsives. Derivatives reˈvulsively adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [adverb] back1783 revulsively1826 1826 J. Bell & R. La Roche tr. F. J. V. Broussais Treat. Physiol. appl. Pathol. ii. vii. 391 Local blood-lettings..on the portion of the skin corresponding to the inflamed viscus,..operate revulsively, and produce haemorrhages analogous to those which nature always tends to bring on in similar circumstances. 1856 T. Aird Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 145 His spirit with alternate change From pride to sorrow was compelled to range Revulsively. 1902 Dietetic & Hygienic Gaz. 18 439/1 Treatment of a constitutional character, so arranged as to act revulsively upon the diseased leg.., was administered daily. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1585 |
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