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English
Etymology
From anti- + acrid.
Adjective
antacrid (not comparable)
- (archaic, medicine) Serving to correct acridness of the humours.
1770, Charles Alston, John Hope, Lectures on the Materia Medica, page 58: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.
1772, Nikolai Detlef Falck, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, page 441:Take extract of lead, mercurial ointment, antacrid cerate , of each an equal part. Incorporate them in a mortar or on a tile.
1859 February, Alexander Bryant, “Falck on Venereal”, in Maryland and Virginia Medical Journal, volume 12, page 108: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.
Noun
antacrid (plural antacrids)
- An antacrid drug.
1825, “Dr, Nuttall's Lectures”, in The Lancet, page 580:Antacids and antacrids select, from the mineral kingdom, exhibited per anum, vaginam et urethram, to absorb vitiated secretion .
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