Aræotic
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Aræotics, in pre-modern medicine, were remedies believed to open up the pores of the skin, rendering them large enough for diseased matter to be carried off by sweat or perspiration[citation needed]. 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.
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- This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain. [1]
- Encyclopædia Britannica, 1815, ed. 5, II. 531.
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