anti-pyretics

Updated: September 8, 2025

For the first week of his illness he did not feel very poorly, and we had many chats together, and some prayer and reading of God's Word every night nearly. But in the second week his temperature went up to 106°, and, though it came down under anti-pyretics, he seemed never to regain his former ground. His mind became more and more clouded.

James Gilmour - James Gilmour of Mongolia: His diaries, letters, and reports

The struggles of this strong man became something fearful as the lungs congested, and the most powerful of anti-pyretics ceased to have effect, and then came the peace which follows nature's virtual surrender, the armistice of the moment.

Stanley Waterloo - A Man and a Woman