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Definition of Antipyretics
1. antipyretic [n] - See also: antipyretic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antipyretics
Literary usage of Antipyretics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"THE antipyretics. (ACETANILIDE AND ANTIPYRINE SERIES.) The antipyretics are a
recent addition to therapeutics, the oldest of this group now in use dating ..."
2. Modern Materia Medica and Therapeutics by Arthur Albert Stevens (1909)
"antipyretics are drugs that lower temperature whe abnormally high. ... antipyretics
are employed to lower t ature in febrile states. ..."
3. Experimental Pharmacology by Hugh McGuigan (1919)
"antipyretics. The immediate active agent in the coal-tar antipyretics is ...
These coal-tar antipyretics act on the heat-regulating center to depress it, ..."
4. Therapeutics: Its Principles and Practice by Horatio Charles Wood (1908)
"UNDER the term antipyretics are to be considered certain remedies which are used
... The method in which antipyretics reduce fever temperature has not been ..."
5. Materia Medica: Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing for by Walter Arthur Bastedo (1918)
"Some of the quinoline derivatives, among the so-called coal-tar drugs, have been
employed largely as antipyretics (kairin, ..."
6. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"As to the chemical antipyretics, the theory has been advanced that they interfere
with the natural protective bodies of the serum. It has been shown, ..."
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