Associations to the word «Polychrest»

Wiktionary

POLYCHREST, noun. (medicine) A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases.
POLYCHREST SALT, noun. (obsolete) (medicine) (chemistry) potassium sulfate obtained by fusing niter with sulfur

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope