Citations:phœnigmus

Noun: reddening

 * 1825, John Wilkes, Encyclopædia Londinensis; Volume XX, page #287:
 * The appellation of phœnigmus has alſo been ſometimes given to the rubefacient ſubſtance isſelf.
 * 1835, Thomas Browne, Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors, in Sir Thomas Browne’s Works, William Pickering; book III, Chapter III, page #400:
 * The temper of their dung and intestinal execrations do also confirm the same ; which topically applied, become a phœnigmus or rubifying medicine, and are of such fiery parts, that, as we read in Galen, they have of themselves conceived fire, and burnt a house about them.