polychrestic

comparative more polychrestic · superlative most polychrestic

1. obsoletehomeopathyAble to be used in various ways.

   Next in order to these polychrestic medicines come the following […]

   1862, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homœopathic Practice, page 377

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   Theoretically, at least, sulphur and calcarea should precede any, as it were, organopathic prescription for cancer, and such are the multiform, polychrestic powers of these two drugs that a subkatabolic lesion of such import can hardly be imagined where these twain should not be successively indicated.

   1906, The Hahnemannian Monthly, volume 41, page 449