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Definition of Nervine
1. a. Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement.
Definition of Nervine
1. Adjective. (medicine) Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nervine
1. a soothing medicine [n -S]
Medical Definition of Nervine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nervine
Literary usage of Nervine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted by American Medical Association, Arthur Joseph Cramp (1921)
"The "nervine" is but one of several "patent medicines" put out by the Miles
Medical Co. of Elkhart, Ind. As is usual in such cases the advertising of each ..."
2. Specific Diagnosis and Specific Medication by John William Fyfe, John Milton Scudder (1909)
"agent in all diseses in which a. tonic combining nervine powers is deemed ...
"Tonic, nervine, and antispasmodic. This is one of those valuable agents which ..."
3. A Practical Manual of the Diseases of Children, with a Formulary. by Edward Ellis (1879)
"Actaea Racemosa. This drug is employed chiefly in chorea and rheumatism. Dose of
the tincture, TT|,iij.—x. or xv. 12. nervine TONICS. Silver. Zinc. Copper. ..."
4. Quarterly Compendium of Medical Science by D. G. Brinton (1886)
"The National Druggist says that a new Anti-Epileptic and nervine, said by the
Spanish and South American medical journals to he of great value, ..."
5. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1851)
"... the palsied parts being treated by friction with flannel and a "nervine" ointment.
... nervine ..."
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