sudorific

Etymology


From, from (from ) +  (from , ultimately related to ).

Adjective

 * 1) In a state of perspiration; covered in sweat; sudoriferous, sweaty.
 * 2)  That produces sweating.
 * 1)  That produces sweating.
 * 1)  That produces sweating.
 * 1)  That produces sweating.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: причиняващ изпотяване
 * Ido:
 * Portuguese: sudorífico, sudorífero

Noun

 * 1)  A medicine that produces sweating.
 * 2) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Thomas Percival|chapter=Essay I. The Empiric.|title=Essays Medical and Experimental on the Following Subjects, viz. I. The Empiric. II. The Dogmatic. $$\{$$ Or, Arguments For and Against the Use of Theory and Reasoning in Physick. III. Experiments and Observations on Astringents and Bitters. IV. On the Uses and Operations of Blisters. V. On the Resemblance between Chyle and Milk|location=London|publisher=Printed for T. Lowndes, No. 77, in Fleet-street|year=1770|pages=36–37|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4F5HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA36|oclc=731532230|passage=[A]s it was obſerved that acute diſtempers are ſometimes terminated by a critical ſweat, it was concluded that the moſt powerful ſudorifics were the beſt means of accompliſhing this deſirable end. This gave riſe to the deſtructive and fatal practice, which ſoon became univerſal, of adminiſtering heating remedies in diſeaſes of an inflammatory nature: }}
 * 3) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Edward Dodwell|chapter=VI|title=A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, during the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806. [...] In Two Volumes|location=London|publisher=Printed for Rodwell and Martin, New Bond-Street|year=1819|volume=II|page=228|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=xD9aAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA228|oclc=906309191|passage=The whole of this hill is covered with the wild sage, the salvia pomifera, {{...}} It enters into the materia medica of the modern Greeks, and is taken as tea, and used as a sudorific in feverish cases.}}

Translations

 * Georgian: ოფლმდენი, ოფლმდენი საშუალება, ოფლსადენი
 * Ido:
 * Portuguese: sudorífico, sudorífero

Etymology
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