appliance (the medicinal sense colours most uses)
1.
(a) willing service; (b) medicinal treatment All'sW. II. i. 116*
“I come to tender . . . my
appliance.”
2.
remedy, medicinal
application
H8 I. i. 124
“that's the appliance
only Which your disease
requires,”
Ham. IV. iii. 10, Per. III. ii. 86.
3.
means, apparatus
2H4 III. i. 29
“With all appliances and
means to boot.”