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Definition of Tonics
1. tonic [n] - See also: tonic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tonics
Literary usage of Tonics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"tonics, remedies which are alleged to promote nutrition and thus increase ...
The medicinal tonics are variously classified, according to the part of the ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"tonics are of two kinds, medicinal and non-medicinal. The medicinal tonics
are %-an- ously classified, according to the part of the body they principally ..."
3. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1867)
"In considering the uses of tonics it should be borne in mil id that they have
but a very ... tonics are commonly supposed to act upon mechanical principles, ..."
4. An Analytical Compendium of the Various Branches of Medical Science: For the by John Neill, Francis Gurney Smith (1861)
"tonics. tonics are medicines possessing the power of gradually increasing the
... tonics increase the power, while mere stimulants only produced increased ..."
5. Dental materia medica and therapeutics: With Special Reference to the by Hermann Prinz (1917)
"tonics, like alteratives, do not belong to a definite pharmacologic group; ...
tonics are administered for the purpose of increasing the nutrition of the ..."
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