Med. Obs. [ad. Gr. ἀποφλεγματισμ-ός, f. ἀποφλεγματίζ-ειν: see below.]
1. The action of purging phlegm from the head.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Apophlegmatism by the mouth is a kind of particular Salivation.
2. An apophlegmatic agent or treatment.
1615. Daniell, Queen’s Arcad. (1717), 184. Strange Speech … or Trochises, Opiats, Apophilegmatisms.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., I. 8. Cupping the head and blistering the neck [in Apoplexy] signify little if Apophlegmatisms will not do.
1755. in Johnson, and in mod. Dicts.
