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plural alexipharmaca
(obsolete) Something which protects against, or cures, a poison; an antidote. quotations
he calls steel the proper alexipharmacum of this malady, and much magnifies it […].
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, partition II, section 5, member 3, subsection i