a. and sb. [f. Gr. ἀλόη aloe; by form-assoc. with diuretic, etc., but not analogous.]

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  A.  adj.

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  1.  Med. Of the nature of aloes; having aloes as an ingredient.

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1706.  Phillips, Aloetick, belonging to Aloes; as Aloetick Pills.

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1754.  Smellie, Midwif., I. 152. In which case all aloetic medicines ought to be avoided.

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1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 138. A perceptible smell of aloetic drugs.

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1875.  Wood, Therap. (1879), 536. Salines, and not aloetic purgatives.

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  2.  Chem. Aloetic Acid: a yellow amorphous powder, 2 C7H2N2O5.H2O, of acrid taste, forming purple-red solutions in boiling water and in alcohol.

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1855.  Pereira, Mat. Med., I. ii. 196. By the action of nitric acid on aloes [Schunk] obtained … aloetic acid.

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  B.  sb. An aloetic medicine.

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1706.  Phillips, Aloeticks, medicines that consist chiefly of Aloes.

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1756.  C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, II. 267. Some gross corpulent persons … will require aloetics.

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1791.  Edin. New Disp., 527. The general purposes of aloetics.

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