antiloimic
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editantiloimic (not comparable)
- remedial against the plague
Noun
editantiloimic (plural antiloimics)
- (medicine) A remedy against the plague.
- 1844, Pharmaceutical Journal:
- In this view muriatic, nitric, and acetic acids are preferable antiloimics to chlorine, which acts so injuriously on the lungs.
References
edit- “antiloimic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.