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A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration.

WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
SUPPURATION
1. The act or process of suppurating. 2. The matter produced by suppuration; pus.
WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
APPLICATION
1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
MEDICINE
A physician. Shak. Medicine bag, a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them. -- Medicine man , a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of
REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
MISAPPLICATION
A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.
SUGGESTIVE MEDICINE
Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.
INAPPLICATION
Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.