Relating to or promoting copious perspiration; describing a treatment, substance, or condition that induces heavy sweating as part of therapy or medical response.
From Greek 'dia-' + 'pnoe' (sweating) + '-tic' (adjective suffix). This medical adjective emerged to categorize treatments believed to work through perspiration.
Doctors once prescribed diapnotic treatments intentionally—wrapping patients in blankets and giving them hot herbal drinks to sweat out fevers, which actually does help break fever through evaporative cooling!
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