Med. [CONTRA- 1; in medical L. contrāindicātio, F. contre-indication.] An indication or symptom that makes against the treatment called for by the main symptoms.
1623. Hart, Arraignm. Urines, iv. 103. Contraindication is that which primarily and principally doth hinder that which was suggested by the indicant.
1732. Arbuthnot, Rules of Diet, 282. When there are Contra-indications, that is when different Symptoms demand opposite Methods.
1780. J. T. Dillon, Trav. Spain (1781), 157. In those cases where every other specific has its contraindication.
1875. trans. Ziemssen’s Cycl. Med., I. 212. Hæmorrhage from the bowels constitutes one of the contra-indications to the use of cold baths.
