antacrid

1. archaicnot comparablemedicineServing to correct acridness of the humours.

   Take extract of lead, mercurial ointment, antacrid cerate , of each an equal part. Incorporate them in a mortar or on a tile.

   1772, Nikolai Detlef Falck, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, page 441

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   It is antacrid probably; is called a specific for the epilepsy, and all corrvulsive disorders; and commended also for vertigoes, apoplexies, pleurifies, quartans, worms, and I don't know what.

   1770, Charles Alston, John Hope, Lectures on the Materia Medica, page 58

   In syphilis, I directed the patient to take of the antacrid tincture 15 drops in a little water or sassafras tea, three times a day, and dress the chancres with the prepared calomel powder, covered with lint, twice a day.

   1859 February, Alexander Bryant, “Falck on Venereal”, in Maryland and Virginia Medical Journal, volume 12, page 108

plural antacrids

1. An antacrid drug.

   Antacids and antacrids select, from the mineral kingdom, exhibited per anum, vaginam et urethram, to absorb vitiated secretion .

   1825, “Dr, Nuttall's Lectures”, in The Lancet, page 580