sb. (a.) Med. [ad. It. contrastimolante, Rasori.]
1. sb. A medicine that acts in opposition to a stimulant, or that reduces the force of the vital actions.
1831. J. Davies, Manual Mat. Med., 359. The Italian physicians consider it as a powerful contra-stimulant.
1882. Syd. Soc. Lex., s.v. Contrastimulus, According to the doctrine of Rasori … all really useful remedies are comprised in the classes stimulants and contrastimulants.
2. attrib. or adj.
1881. Lincoln, trans. Trousseau & Pidoux’ Treat. Therap., II. 19. They say that bleeding neutralizes … the contra-stimulant effects of the emetic.
