Meaning of Maturative | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A remedy used in medieval medicine to promote maturation; a maturant.
   historical
2. A verb that implies the process of growth, progress or maturation
   rare

Equivalents

Examples

“Maturatives, or alterative Medicines in the Chest and Ship to be had are very many , yea more then I can call to mind at this time , wherefore to be brief , Emplastrum Diachylon cum Gummis I put for the principal , for it is for that purpose only, Parqacelsus Plaisters applyed thick spread, the place first anointed with oyl of Lillies, will do well.”

“Wherefore (says he) the safest way is, not always to confide in one Medicament alone, but rather to compound them, according to the Nature and Temper of the Part, and to mingle Digestives with Sarcoticks: Since that Experience testifies, that such are used with far better Success, than meer Maturatives alone.”

“If the subcutaneous infection still exists, the resolutives help rid the would of any remaining infection; the softening drugs make the wound amenable to treatment; if there was no choice but to mature and lance the aposteme, the maturatives were used; cleansing drugs rid the wound of the remaining pus; and sedatives eased the discomfort.”

“What is characteristic of the maturatives as a kind of special case of the conformatives is the factor of growth, of alteration in time, but also something more, as we shall presently see.”

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