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alexitery
noun 1adj 1
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2ADJ.
best
VERB + ALEXITERY
purging
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noun
1
An antidote to poison.
These miserable Wretches are included herein with hot bricks, and almost suffocated, till they sweat abundantly in every part of their bodyes, having before drunk of the Decoction of Lignum sanctum, or Sarsaparilla, or some other Alexitery, which will both move sweat, and deleate the French disease.
Galen saith, as deleteries they are inimical to nature, especially if the party that wears them be given to much labour, exercise, or motion; neither can I advise such, if any, with hope of good success to use them ; but suppose they be made of alexiteries, then Galen nor any judicious person doth or ever did dispute or question them.
adj
1
Acting as an antidote to poison.
Yet some things attract specifically, and not by a manifest quality : as things that are carthartic or purging, and alexitery, or resisting poison.
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These miserable Wretches are included herein with hot bricks, and almost suffocated, till they sweat abundantly in every part of their bodyes, having before drunk of the Decoction of Lignum sanctum, o
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Galen saith, as deleteries they are inimical to nature, especially if the party that wears them be given to much labour, exercise, or motion; neither can I advise such, if any, with hope of good succe
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Pare believes that the best "alexitery" is to flee from all poisoners as from the plague--"et les chasser du Royaume de France, et les envoyer avec les Turcs et les autres infideles, ou aux deserts in
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Yet some things attract specifically, and not by a manifest quality : as things that are carthartic or purging, and alexitery, or resisting poison.
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