Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Efficacious in curing the itch.
  • noun A remedy for the itch.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Of use in curing the itch.

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  • adjective medicine Effective against the itch.
  • noun medicine Any remedy for the itch.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ psoric

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Examples

  • Like all the carbons, this remedy is an antipsoric of great power.

    Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34; 2010

  • Psoric - Though in Aphorism 195, Dr. Hahnemann states that "In chronic local maladies that are not obviously veneral, the internal antipsoric treatment alone requisite 'suggests that it is Psoric in nature.

    Best Syndication - 2008

  • Psoric - Though in Aphorism 195, Dr. Hahnemann states that "In chronic local maladies that are not obviously veneral, the internal antipsoric treatment alone requisite 'suggests that it is Psoric in nature.

    Best Syndication - 2008

  • Psoric - Though in Aphorism 195, Dr. Hahnemann states that "In chronic local maladies that are not obviously veneral, the internal antipsoric treatment alone requisite 'suggests that it is Psoric in nature.

    Best Syndication - 2008

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  • "In February 1785, field hands Pompey and Binah evidently picked up some bacteria that opened sores and inflamed their skin. McCormick gave them each an 'antipsoric ointment' to calm their itching. On a return call, McCormick's answer was an 'ointment lint dressing.' Three weeks later one sore needed further attention, and McCormick applied more dressing, but Pompey's wound still did not heal. The doctor came back a fourth time and applied 'ceraic ointment,' a stiff dressing made of beeswax dissolved in alcohol and mixed with lard. After that Pompey's skin seemed to have healed, or else the patient got tired of McCormick's constant handling."

    —Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family (NY: Ballantine Books, 1998), 247

    October 13, 2009

  • "It is one of those deep-acting, long-acting antipsoric medicines."

    James Tyler Kent, quoted in The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas, p 118

    December 30, 2013