Part 8

RUBEFACIENT.--A medicine or agent causing irritation and redness of the skin, as turpentine, mustard, etc.

SEDATIVE.--A medicine which diminishes functional activity, as potassium or ammonium bromide, etc.

SEPTIC.--An agent causing poisoning resulting from the absorption of products of putrefaction, as bacteria.

SIALOGOGUE.--A medicine stimulating the flow of saliva, as pilocarpine, arecoline, ginger, capsicum, etc.

SOMNIFACIENT or SOPORIFIC.--A medicine which produces drowsiness and sleep, as morphine, chloral hydrate, potassium, bromide, etc.

SORBEFACIENT.--A medicine used to produce abortion, as ergot.

SPECIFIC.--A medicine or agent which has a distinct curative influence on an individual disease, as potassium iodide in actinomycosis (Lumpy Jaw) or oxygen in milk fever, etc.

STIMULANT.--A medicine which quickens or increases functional activity, as strychnine, ammonium carbonate, alcohol, etc.

STOMACHIC.--A medicine which increases functional activity of the stomach, as quassia gentian, etc.

STOMATIC.--A medicine used in diseases of the mouth, as boric acid, potassium chlorate, alum, etc.

SUPERFACIENT.--A medicine causing unconsciousness from which the patient can be roused, as opium, bromide of potassium, etc.

STYPTIC.--An agent that checks bleeding by causing contraction of the blood vessels, as tincture chloride of iron, ergot, etc.

SUCCEDANEUM.--A medicine which may be substituted for another possessing similar properties, as chloral hydrate for potassium bromide, or aloes for linseed oil, etc.

SUDORIFIC.--A medicine or agent which produces an increased quantity of perspiration (sweat) as ginger, pilocarpine, Dover’s powders, etc.

SUPPURANT.--A medicine or agent promoting pus formation, as poultices, cantharides, croton oil, etc.

SYNERGIST.--A medicine which co-operates or assists the action of another, as chloroform with ether, cantharides with red iodide of mercury, etc.

TAENICIDE.--A medicine which destroys tape worms, as extract of male fern.

TAENIFUGE.--A medicine which expels tape worms, as areca nut, pumpkin seed, oil of turpentine, etc.

TETANIC.--A medicine or agent which increases the irritation of the spinal cord or muscles producing spasms, as strychnine, etc.

TONIC.--A medicine promoting nutrition and giving strength to the body, as arsenic, cod liver oil, etc.

TOPIC or TOPICAL.--A substance or agent for external use, applied locally, as a liniment.

TOXIC.--A condition produced by a poison, as a result of an over-dose of medicine or the absorption of bacterial products.

TRICOPHYED.--A medicine promoting the growth of hair, as pilocarpine, cantharides, capsicum, etc.

UTERINE.--A medicine acting upon the uterus, as ergot.

VEHICLE.--A medicine or agent used as a medium or base for the administration of medicines, as syrups, oils, water, etc.

VERMICIDE.--A medicine which destroys parasitic worms, as turpentine, iron sulphate, tobacco, creosote, etc.

VERMIFUGE.--A medicine which expels parasitic worms, as arecoline, aloes, etc.

VESICANT.--A medicine which forms pustules containing white serum, as cantharides.