Having the power to cause digestion in the stomach; as a digestive preparation or medicine.

Capable of softening and preparing by heat.

Methodizing; reducing to order; as digestive thought.

Causing maturation in wounds or ulcers.

Dissolving.

In medicine, any preparation or medicine which increases the tone of the stomach, and aids digestion; a stomachic; a corroborant.

In surgery, an application which ripens an ulcer or wound, or disposes it to suppurate. Digestive salt, the muriate of potash.