Medicine. Treatment with mercurial preparations. Now historical.

Originally: †any of various medicinal preparations containing hellebore (probably Veratrum album) (obsolete). In later use: treatment, esp…

treatment with cocaine.

(a) treatment or testing with tuberculin; (b) = tuberculization, n.

medical treatment with a gold salt or other compound of gold administered by injection or orally, used esp. for rheumatoid arthritis and other…

The act of applying strychnine.

The action or process of treating with snake venom.

= strychninization, n.

the process of heparinizing.

treatment with reserpine; the condition resulting from this.