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Vermifuge   Listen
noun
Vermifuge  n.  (Med.) A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Vermifuge" Quotes from Famous Books



... used as an anodyne, and "formidable surgical operations have been performed under its influence." It is frequently used as a narcotic. Some species are employed as drugs by the Chinese. The anthelmintic polyporus is employed in Burmah as a vermifuge. The ergot of rye is still employed to some extent in medicine, and the ripe puff balls are still used in some cases to stop ...
— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. • George Francis Atkinson

... the filbert, and eat it with pepper, salt, and the sauce of Worcester, whose fortune was made by the nice conduct of garlic. The papaw [Footnote: The leaves are rubbed on meat to make it tender, and a drop of milk from the young fruit acts as a vermifuge.] should be cooked as a vegetable and stuffed with forced meat; the flesh of the granadilla, which resembles it, is neglected, while the seeds and their surroundings are flavoured with sherry and sugar. There is an abundance of the Eriobotrya Japonica, in Madeira called the loquat ...
— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Vol. I • Richard F. Burton



Words linked to "Vermifuge" :   mepacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride, medicinal drug, medicament, quinacrine, carbon dichloride, Atabrine, mebendazole, thiabendazole, anthelminthic, anthelmintic, helminthic, medication, medicine



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