Apophlegmatisms, in pre-modern medicine, were medications chewed in order to draw away phlegm and humours from the head and brain.
Such treatments were called apophlegmatic.
Of this kind, tobacco was considered excellent, except for the damage it does to teeth.
The word comes from the Greek ἀπὸ and φλέγμα ('inflammation, heat').
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