Definition of "alexipharmic" []

• An antidote to poison. (noun)
• Acting against poison. (adjective)

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• "The medicine mithridate forms a part of many of these prescriptions; it does not seem to be regarded as an alexipharmic, but as a soporific."
• ""Is that some new alexipharmic?" he asked with a sudden rational air, which was almost as startling as if a dead man had spoken."
• "One was an alexipharmic draught, to be taken the last thing at night, another a sudorific, to be administered once in every hour."