/ · 1894 Brewer’s · M · Medicinal Days
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The sixth, eighth, tenth, twelfth, sixteenth, eighteenth, etc., of a disease; so called because. according to Hippocʹratēs, no “crisis” occurs on these days, and medicine may be safely administered. (See Crisis.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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