Aræotic
Aræotics, in pre-modern medicine, were remedies believed to open up the Sweat pores of the skin, rendering them large enough for diseased matter to be carried off by sweat or perspiration . Such treatments were also believed to rarefy the humours, rendering them easy to be carried off by the pores.
To the class of aræotics belonged diaphoretics, sudorifics, etc.
References
- http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&entity=HistSciTech000900240168&isize=L
- Encyclopædia Britannica, 1815, ed. 5, II. 531.
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