Crossword-Solution: FEBRIFUGES 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

They, too, have ready--having often proved their consolatory efficacy--their febrifuges and their tonics, culled from that tree of life whose 'leaves are for the healing of the nations.' Poor Rachel's hours were dark, and life had grown in some sort terrible, and death seemed now so real and near--aye, quite a fact--and, somehow, not unfriendly.

Febrifuges Febrifuges are remedies used in fevers, such as all the antimonials, bark, quinine, mineral acids, arsenic.

That the disease is not one that may be met--with any prospect of success--with febrifuges, drugs, serums and specifics--to say nothing of whisky and the like futilities, to use no harsher term, such as are said to have characterized the prescriptions of a very considerable proportion of the Regular Medical Profession and with such terribly disastrous results.

Another interesting application of synthetic chemistry to the needs of everyday life was the discovery of a series of valuable febrifuges, of which antipyrin might be named as the most useful.

The 'drops' are composed of the aromatic, sudorific and diaphoretic drugs used as febrifuges by the faculty before the days of 'Jesuits' bark,' to which a small quantity of quinine is added.