medicative

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Millions of dollars are spent yearly by the public for dentifrices which have only the cleansing value of soap and water, no medicative value whatever.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adjective expresses ideas, simple, abstract, general and medicative; it is an abstraction in the substantive.

From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various

The effort of Nature, exerting her medicative force to cast out foreign impediments, and once more become One, become whole?

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest