lithagogue

English

Etymology

Noun

lithagogue (plural lithagogues)

(medicine, archaic) Any medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine.
- 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, “LITHOSPERMUM”, in Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia:
  seeds were formerly used as a lithagogue, or expeller of the stone in the bladder

References

“lithagogue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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