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(From
against, and
implacable,) Anteneasinum. The same with enthusiasmus. A particular kind of madness: in it the patient is furiously irritated, and endeavours to lay violent hands on himself. These people are apt to be seized with sudden convulsive startings of the hands and feet; and therefore the disease is thought to coincide with the chorea sancti viti in some degree.
(From
against, and
the night-mare). A name for the remedies adapted to the cure of this disorder.
(From
against, and
the epilepsy). See Epilepsy.
See Anthera.
(From ante, before, and dim. of mallua, a mallet). See Musc, extern. auris.
Musc. See Pyramidalis Nasi
Mercury. See Argent, vivum.
(From
a flower,) in the plural signifies redness, like the top of a carbuncle.
(From
a flower). Wild Camomile. See Chamaemelum vulgare.
Anthemis cotula and nobilis. See Cham.emelcm foetida, and Flore pleno.
Anthemis pyrethrum. See Pyrethrum. Galen says the anthemis is the same as euanthemon. Anthera, (from
a flower). Also ant era.
A compound medicine used by the ancients, called from its florid red colour. Various compositions had this name. Anthers, indeed, were prepared for any particular part of the body, in the form of powders, or electuaries, and were used as collyriums, denti-frices &c
See Anthora.
(From
a flower). Called also
Geneion. Hippocrates uses this word to express the chin, and all that part of the face where the beard grows.
(From the same). According to Dioscorides, it is the flower of the asphodel.; others say it is the stalk only. See Asphodelus.
See Asphodelus luteus.
(From
a flower), A name of some medicated oils and wines, named from their red colour.
(From
a flower, and
a leaf). The aromatic clove, when ripe. See Caryophilli aromatici.
 
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