Med. [f. VERMI- + -CIDE 1.] A medicine for killing intestinal worms; an anthelmintic, a vermifuge.
1849. trans. Pereira’s Mat. Med. & Therap. (ed. 3), 230. Anthelmintics are of two kinds:—Some act obnoxiously on intestinal worms—destroying or injuring them…. These are … the vermicides of some authors.
1876. Bartholow, Mat. Med. (1879), 490. Vermicides are remedies which kill as well as expel worms.
1899. Cagney, Jaksch’s Clin. Diagn., vi. (ed. 4), 228. Sandwith finds thymol by far the most efficient vermicide in cases of anchylostomiasis.
