dissolvent

It is very useful for those who suffer from evacuations and dysentery; it corrects those ailments and is good as a mild and dissolvent food.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander

As in the case of Hume's metaphysical studies, they constitute the most powerful dissolvent the century was to see.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph

Frederick the Great’s base tolerance produced dissolvent effects.

From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles

The organism of both tongues may be destroyed, but the dissolvent force is also an organic and vital one, and from the ruins of both constructs a speech of grander plans and with wider views.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

The stomach has a dissolvent that causes hunger, and puts man in mind of his want of food. 

From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry