tenuated

Updated: June 20, 2025

Disease was due usually to alterations in the composition of the humors, and the indications for treatment were in accordance with these doctrines. They were to be evacuated, tenuated, cooled, heated, purged or strengthened.

William Osler - The Evolution of Modern Medicine : A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913