Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary PowersDivision (I) Individual Volition
Section II. Prospective Volition
2. Degree of Subservience
662. Remedy.
NOUN:REMEDY, help, redress; anthelmintic, vermifuge, helminthagogue; antifebrile, febrifuge; antipoison, antidote, mithridate [old pharm.], theriaca or theriac, counter-poison; antispasmodic; lithagogue; bracer, pick-me-up [colloq.], stimulant, tonic; abirritant, prophylactic, antiseptic, germicide, bactericide, corrective, restorative; alterant, alterative; cathartic [See Cleanness]; specific; emetic, carminative.METERIA MEDICA, pharmacy, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, acology, posology, dosology [rare]; pathology [See Disease]; pharmacopœia.
NARCOTIC, nepenthe or nepenthes, opium, morphine, cocaine, hashish, bhang, ganja, dope [slang]; sedative [See Moderation].
CURE; partial -, attempted -, radical -, perfect -, certain- cure; sovereign remedy, panacea, cure-all, catholicon.
PHYSIC, medicine, simples, drug, potion, draft or draught, dose, pill, bolus, electuary; lincture or linctus; medicament; pharmacon.
NOSTRUM, recipe, receipt, prescription; elixir, elixir vitœ [L.], balm, balsam, cordial, tisane, ptisan.
agueweed, boneset; arnica, benzoin, cream of tartar, bitartrate of potash, calomel, mercurous chloride; catnip, catmint; Epsom salts; feverroot or feverwort, feverweed, friar’s balsam, Indian sage; ipecac or ipecacuanha; Peruvian bark, Jesuits’ bark, cinchona, quinine or quinin, sassafras, yarrow.
SALVE, ointment, cerate, oil, lenitive, palliative, lotion, embrocation, liniment.
harquebusade or arquebusade, traumatic, vulnerary, pepastic, maturative, maturant, suppurative; eyewater, collyrium; cosmetic; depilatory.
POULTICE, cataplasm, vesicatory, plaster, emplastrum [L.], epithem, sinapism.
compress, pledget; bandage (support) [See Support].
TREATMENT, medical treatment, regimen, diet; dietary, dietetics; vis medicatrix [L.]; vis naturœ [L.]; médecine expectante [F.]; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection, phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisuge, leeches; operation, the knife [colloq.], surgical operation; major operation; electrolysis, electrolyzation.
HEALING ART, leechcraft [archaic], practice of medicine, therapeutics; allopathy, homeopathy or homœopathy, osteopathy, eclecticism, heteropathy; gynecology, gyniatrics, gynecological therapeutics; pediatrics or pædiatrics; surgery, chirurgery [archaic]; orthopedics or orthopædics, orthopedia or orthopædia, orthopraxy, orthopraxis, orthopedic surgery; sarcology, organotherapy; hydrotherapy, hydropathy, cold-water cure; faith cure, faith healing, mind cure, psychotherapy, psychotherapeutics; Christian Science, Eddyism; radiotherapy, heliotherapy, serotherapy, serum therapy; aërotherapy, pneumatotherapy; vocational therapy; dentistry, surgical dentistry; midwifery, obstetrics, tocology.
HOSPITAL, infirmary, clinic, hôpital [F.], general hospital, hotel-Dieu [F.]; special hospital (cancer, children’s, dental, fever, maternity or lying-in, ophthalmic &c); pesthouse, lazarhouse, lazaretto, lazaret; lock hospital [Eng.]; maison de santé [F.]; Hôtel des Invalides [F.]; sanatarium, sanitarium, sanatorium, springs, baths, spa, pump room, well; hospice; asylum, home; Red Cross; ambulance.
dispensary, dispensatory, drug store, chemist’s shop [Brit.].
DOCTOR, physician, leech [archaic], medical man, disciple of Æsculapius; medical -, general- practitioner; medical attendant, specialist; surgeon, chirurgeon [archaic].
consultant, operator; interne, anæsthetist or anesthetist; aurist, oculist, dentist, dental surgeon; osteopath, osteopathist; orthopedist or orthopædist; gynecologist, obstetrician; Christian Science practitioner, faith healer; medical student, medic [colloq. or slang, U. S.]; accoucheur (fem. accoucheuse) [F.], midwife; nurse; graduate -, trained -, district -, practical -, monthly- nurse; sister, nursing sister; dresser, bonesetter, apothecary, druggist, chemist [Brit.], pharmacopolist, pharmaceutist, pharmacist, pharmaceutical chemist, pharmacologist; Æsculapius, Hippocrates, Galen; masseur (fem. masseuse) [F.], massagist, rubber.
[INSTRUMENTS] stethoscope, stethometer, stethograph, respirometer, spirometer, pneumometer, spirograph, pneumatograph, pneumatometer, pulmotor.
VERB:APPLY A REMEDY &c. n.; doctor [colloq.], dose, physic, nurse, minister to, attend, dress the wounds, plaster, poultice; strap, splint, bandage; prevent [See Hindrance]; relieve [See Relief]; palliate [See Improvement]; heal, cure, “kill or cure,” work a cure, remedy, stay (disease), snatch from the jaws of death; restore [See Restoration]; drench with physic; consult, specialize, operate, anæsthetize or anesthetize; straighten, mold or mould; deliver; extract, fill, stop; transfuse, bleed, cup, let blood; electrolyze.
manicure; pedicure; shampoo; massage, rub.
ADJECTIVE:REMEDIAL; restorative [See Restoration]; corrective, palliative, healing; sanatory, sanative; prophylactic; salutiferous (salutary) [See Salubrity]; medical, medicinal; therapeutic, hypnotic, neurotic, chirurgical [archaic], surgical, epulotic [obs.], paregoric, tonic, corroborant, roborant; analeptic, balsamic, anodyne, narcotic, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, emollient; detersive, detergent; abstersive, disinfectant; febrifugal, antifebrile; alterative; traumatic, vulnerary.
allopathic, homeopathic or homœopathic, eclectic, hydropathic, heteropathic; aperient, laxative, cathartic, purgative; septic; aseptic, antiseptic; antiluetic, antisyphilitic; anthelmintic, vermifugal; chalybeate, deobstruent; purifying, cleansing, depurative, depuratory; electrolytic or electrolytical.
DIETETIC, dietary, alimentary; nutritious, nutritive; digestive, digestible, peptic.
REMEDIABLE, curable; antidotal, alexipharmic, alexiteric.
QUOTATIONS:
- Aux grands maux les grands remèdes.
- Temporis ars medicina fere est.—Ovid
- Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem.—Byron
- Troubled with thick-coming fancies.—Macbeth
- The remedy is worse than the disease.—Dryden
- Throw physic to the dogs, I’ll none of it.—Macbeth
- The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.—Swift
- Divine presenter of the healing rod.—Browning