Definition of "preparatives" [preparatives]

• Plural form of preparative. (noun)

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• "In the general treatment of febrile diseases, so-called preparatives and digestives are first employed to ripen the humors, after which evacuatives (emetics, cathartics, sudorifics, and occasionally even venesection) are utilized for the discharge of these peccant humors."
• "These are most used for preparatives to other physic, mixed with distilled waters of like nature, or in juleps otherwise."
• "All these yet are nothing to those [4272] chemical preparatives of"