antidotaries

Noun

antidotary (plural antidotaries)

1. (obsolete) An antidote.
   • […] he saith that some Jasper stones are found having in them the livelie image of a naturall man, with a sheeld at his necke and a speare in his hand, and under his feete a serpent: which stones so marked and signed, he preferreth before all the rest, bicause they are antidotaries or remedies...1584, Reginald Scot, chapter 7, in Brinsley Nicholson, editor, The Discoverie of Witchcraft, London: Elliot Stock, published 1886, page 245
2. (historical) A book of antidotes or pharmacological preparations.
   • In the Antidotaries of the Ancients, we find a great many Physical Compositions which seem to be wholly design’d for the Liver […]1685, Thomas Willis, The London Practice of Physick, London: Thomas Basset et al., Part 2, Section 2, Chapter 2, p. 148

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