Preventing or reducing fever.
1 The trees which furnish, the precious febrifuge bark are native here.
2 I also doctor him with febrifuge tea, made of snake and valerian roots.
3 The medicine must be a soporific as well as a febrifuge .
4 Its bark very thin, and of a pale yellow, is a powerful febrifuge .
5 He claims it is better than febrifuge and cures all ailments, including his rheumatism.
6 One medical innovation, the use of quinine as a febrifuge , has secured universal approbation.
7 The tree is celebrated for its aromatic fruit, the infusion of which is a powerful febrifuge .
8 These compounds had a very surprising febrifuge action, without any unpleasant after effects or local disturbances.
9 Then he flew to a famous antidote, to "the grand febrifuge " of anchorites-coldwater.
10 She knew but little Italian, but could understand that the cordial was a febrifuge of some sort.
11 Used sometimes as a febrifuge -
12 He did his utmost to endeavour to kindle a little enthusiasm in me on the subject of this valuable febrifuge .
13 Librarians invented that soothing device for the febrifuge of their souls, just as I fall back upon the rites of the kitchen.
14 The water in which it was dipped operated as a styptic, as a febrifuge , and possessed other properties as a medical talisman.
15 The mother sped to her daughters' appeal for help and required her son to sing "The Lost Chord" as a febrifuge .
16 And by and by Santa goes to sleep; and Doc feels her forehead; and he says to me: 'You're not such a bad febrifuge .
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