irritative

I believe that a Stimulant is able actually to produce nervous action; perhaps by an irritative operation upon nerve-fibre.

It is thus a most valuable topical remedy in true irritative Neuralgia.

This is especially useful if there be any form of irritative cough or local excitement, such as the aged sometimes experience.

The early, irritative cough of incipient pulmonary consumption may be soothed with camphor and opium.

Inhalation of warm vapor, and respiration of air charged with ether, or carbolic acid, will often quiet an irritative cough.