English

Noun

orthopnoeae pl

1. plural of orthopnoea
   • 1655, John Goodyer [tr.], The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides…Englished by John Goodyer (1933 reprint, ed. Robert Theodore Gunther, Hafner Pub. Co.), page 201

     It helps those which are Liver-sick, and coughes, & ye Orthopnoeae, the quantitie of a spoonefull thereof being taken with hony, and it doth subducere alvum.