Antibilious
serving to prevent or cure biliousness.
Historical Examples
He referred to various medicines, some of which he thinks were antibilious or otherwise sanatory.
The Indian in his Wigwam Henry R. Schoolcraft
The scoundrels have nearly demolished two dozen antibilious pills.
The King’s Own Captain Frederick Marryat
Recommended as antibilious, cathartic, chemical family pills.
Cooley’s Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades…, Sixth Edition, Volume I Arnold Cooley
antibilious, an′ti-bil′yus, adj. of use against biliousness.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
Or perhaps it would be best to wake him up and give him two antibilious pills.
The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle
No creatures of their age had taken such quantities of Ching’s lozenges, Godbold’s elixir, or Dixon’s antibilious pills.
Tales And Novels, Volume 7 (of 10) Maria Edgeworth
antibilious are medicines which are useful in bilious affections, such as calomel, &c.
Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million Sarah Josepha Hale
Lee’s antibilious, &c., and he will certainly succeed: the soundest liver will not be proof against such remedies for bile.
Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million Sarah Josepha Hale
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