Alica

(From alo, to nourish). A sort of food admired by the ancients; it is difficult to say whether it is a grain or preparation from some seed: many writers speak of it as a sort of wheat; but upon the whole it seems to be a kind of meal made into frumenty, to be eaten with milk, etc. Salmasius says, that alica is one sort of the chondros of the Greeks, which was grain broken into large fragments, or rather only freed from the husks, but not ground in a mill; called also aphae-rema, adroteron, farinarium.

Alices

(From to sprinkle). Little red spots in the skin, which precede the eruption of pustules in the small-pox.

Alicornu

(From the Hebrew terms ali, lifted up, and karan, a horn). See Unicornu.

Alienatio Mentis

(From alieno, to estrange). See Delirium.

Alienum

(From the same). In a medical sense it is any thing foreign and troublesome to the body. Sometimes it means corrupted.

Aliformis

Processus. See Pterygoides processus. (From ala, a -wing, and forma, the shaft'

Aliformis musculi. See Pterygoids.

Al Gulus. See Confectio.

Alilat

Or an Arabian name for Lucina, or the goddess which the Greeks supposed to preside over child-birth.

Alima

(From belonging to the sea). A sort of sand from which lead and other metals are obtained.

III

Anna fontana, rivalis, carbonas calcis.

IV. Aer atmosphericus, gaz oxenium, azotum, aci-lium, carbonicum.

V. Balnea, enemata nutrientia, transfusio sanguinis.

VI. Condimenta.

On this arrangement we shall make no remarks. It is the offspring of fancy rather than observation; and an obvious distinction is neglected, viz. that between the degree of nutrition and the facility of digestion. Some of the generic names differ from ours, which are those of Gmelin's edition of the Systema Naturae.

Alimentary Canal

The whole tract of intestines, including the stomach.

Alimentary duct. See Thoracic duct.

Alimos

Common liquorice.

Alimum

See Arum.

Alindesis

Or (from volvo). A bodily exercise, which seems to be rolling on the ground, or rather in the dust, after being anointed with oil. Hippocrates says, that it hath nearly the same effects as wrestling.

Alinthisar

See Hypostaphyle.

Aliocab

See Ammoniacus sal.

that have no fat in them.

Alipasma

(From to anoint). A-powder which, when mixed with oil, is rubbed on the body to prevent sweating.