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Prophylactic   Listen
noun
Prophylactic  n.  (Med.) A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Prophylactic" Quotes from Famous Books



... century we thus see that the question of a small-pox prophylactic was wavering between the monstrous assumption that everybody must necessarily have small-pox, and had better set about it, and the milder notion of vaccine as an antidote, if the real thing should come. The old custom of variolation had not been discarded, ...
— Fragments of Two Centuries - Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King • Alfred Kingston



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