Eccrinologica

(From to secrete, or separate). That part of medicine which relates to the doctrine of excretions.

Ecdora

(From and to excoriate). See

Excoriatio. An excoriation of the urethra. P. Aman-nus.

Echecollon

(From and glue). A

Glutinous topic.

Echetrosis

See Bryonia alba.

Echinata Semina

Seeds which are prickly and rough, from echinus, a hedge hog.

Echinides

A medicine for purging the womb. Hippocrates.

Echinophora

(From and to bear).

See Caucalis.

Echinophthalmia

(From a hedge hog, and an inflammation of the eye). An inflammation of the hairy part of the eye Lids; probably because the eye lid is set with hairs, as the echinus with prickles.

Echinopus

(From as beset with (trickles).

Crocodilian, acanthalruca, scabiosa carduifolia, sphaero-cefihala elatior, globe thistle. Echinops sphaeroce-jihalus Lin. Sp. Pi. 1314. It is raised in our gardens. The root and seeds are moderately diuretic, but not used.

Echinus

A hedge hog; acanthion. In botany, those plants or parts of plants which are beset very closely with spines; or the prickly head or cover of the seed.

Echims mari nus. The sea hedge hog or urchin. See Amygdaloides.

Echites Corymbosa

See Caoutchouc.

Echos

(From sound). See Tinnitus aurium.

Echysis

(From to pour out). See Lipothymia.

Eclampsia Typhodes

See Raphania. Eclampsis, (from to shine). It is a flashing light, or those sparklings which strike the eyes of epileptic patients. Coelius Aurelianus calls them circuit ignei. Though only a symptom of the epilepsy, Hippocrates uses the term for the disease itself. Dr. Cullen places it as a synonym with epilepsia, and adds, "that Vogel and Sauvages distinguished an eclampsia as an acute disease from epilepsy, which they consider a chronic one; but as it is very difficult every where to place accurate limits between acute and chronic diseases, and as the eclampsia of Sauvages will exactly agree, for the most part, as well in the causes as symptoms, with epilepsy, I could by no means arrange it in a different genus from epilepsy."

Eclectica Medicina

(From to elect).

Archigenus, and some others, selected from all other sects what appeared to them to be the best and most rational; hence they were called eclectics, and their medicine, eclectic medicine. Boerhaave's system is of this kind.eclectos, Eclegma, and Ecleictos, (from to lick). See Linctus.