bracer

That experience was the greatest bracer I had ever had in my life.

Bracer: a leathern defence for the arm: a similar shield is now worn in archery.

I wanted a bracer badly, I can tell you, for we had participated in a very strenuous evening.

At length Connery steered him into a saloon for medicine and bought him a stiff bracer of whisky and vermouth.

Celerina belongs to what Samuel Hopkins Adams calls the bracer type of nostrum.