a. and sb. Med. Also 8 anti- [f. ANT- + APOPLECTIC.]
A. adj. Tending to prevent or cure apoplexy.
1697. Phil. Trans., XIX. 468. Bleedings, Purges, Diureticks, and Antapoplectick Medicines.
1720. Blair, ibid., XXXI. 35. They are also Pectoral, Anti-Apoplectick.
1755. in J.
† B. sb. A medicine so used. Obs.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Apoplectica … a name used by some for what we more properly call Antapoplectics.
