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alexiterian en · ADJ

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1. (historical) Synonym of alexiteric.
   • This opinion both of Cardiack and Alexiterian Medicines, ſeems to have riſen from thence, for as much as in times paſt it was thought and is commonly believed, that the Heart is the beginning of all Life and Heat [...] 1681, Willis, Thomas, M. D., “Sect VI. Chap. 1”, in Dr Willis's practice of physick, page 114:
   • By his prescription, she had 8 oz. blood taken from her, and took a mixture of oyl of almonds, syrup of balsam, alexiterian * simple, water, and sal volat. [...] N. Bailey's Dictionary, 1745, has — Alexiterical and Alexiterick — that which preserves from, or drives out poison ; also that is good against fevers of a malignant kind, by promoting sweat 1884, Thomas Hutchinson, chapter IX, in Diary and letters; with an account of his administration when he was member and speaker of the House of Representatives, and his government of the colony during the difficult period that preceded the War of Independence, page 552:

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alexiteric