antidotary

== English == === Etymology === From antidote +‎ -ary. === Adjective === antidotary (not comparable) (pharmacology) Relating to or being an antidote, antidotal. === Noun === antidotary (plural antidotaries) (obsolete) An antidote. (historical) A book of antidotes or pharmacological preparations. 1851, Review of Pharmacy of the Greeks and Romans by M. Cap, translated by W.H. Cobb, Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 7, Number 5, May 1851, p. 377,[6] Galen called all medicines administered internally, antidotes; thence, the word antidotary was for a long time employed synonymously with dispensary, or pharmacopœia. 1920, D’Arcy Power, “The Education of a Surgeon under Thomas Vicary,” lecture delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 11 November, 1920, British Journal of Surgery, Volume 8, Number 31, pp. 256-257,[7] Readiness of resource, mother-wit, and a fair average of manipulative skill were characteristics of the Tudor surgeon, and he trepanned the head, opened the chest, cut for stone, and amputated with remarkable success. He also had some knowledge of herbs and simples, and there had been handed down to him an antidotary or collection of prescriptions which had proved useful to his predecessors. ==== Translations ==== === References === “antidotary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.