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Definition of Calmatives
1. calmative [n] - See also: calmative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calmatives
Literary usage of Calmatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutics: Its Principles and Practice by Horatio Charles Wood (1908)
"FAMILY I.—calmatives.* IN certain conditions of the nervous system—conditions
associated with weakness rather than ..."
2. Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Horatio Charles Wood (1916)
"calmatives. In certain conditions of the nervous system, conditions associated
with weakness rather than simple depression, the nerve-centers appear to be ..."
3. Textbook of insanity: Based on Clinical Observations for Practitioners and by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1905)
"(a) General calmatives. 1. Narcotics. Narcotics very properly play an important
part in the therapy of the psychoses, in that they overcome mental ..."
4. Diseases of the stomach and intestines: A Manual of Clinical Therapeutics by Dujardin-Beaumetz (1886)
"Dysentery—Aspect of Faecal Matters at Different Stages— Pharmaceutical Treatment —
Blood Letting — calmatives —Astringents-—Calomel—Ipecac—Brazilian ..."
5. The Journal of Mental Science by Royal Medico-psychological Association (1871)
"I have already entered a protest elsewhere against the senseless bigotry, as it
appears to me, of withholding the systematic use of calmatives from the aged ..."
6. Insanity: Its Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment by Edward Charles Spitzka (1883)
"It will be found an excellent plan to alternate in the use of narcotic and
hydro-therapeutic calmatives, in order to prevent the ..."
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