a. and sb. Med. Obs. [mod. formation, not on Gr. analogies, with reference to ἀποφλεγματίζ-ειν (see below) and form of PHLEGMATIC.] A. adj. Promoting the removal of phlegm; expectorant. B. sb. (sc. agent.)
1727. Swift, Gulliver, III. vi. 216. Administer to each of them … apophlegmatics.
1731. Bailey, Apophlegmatick Medicine, medicines to be chewed that have the faculty to purge the head and brain of cold phlegmatick humours by the nose, mouth, etc.
1880. in Syd. Soc. Lex. as ‘old term.’
