Callicreas

(rom good, and meat).

See Pancreas.

Calligonum

(From beautiful, and a joint, or knot; so named from its being handsomely jointed). See Polygonum.

Calliomarcus

See Tussilago.

Callionymus

(From good, and a name). See Uranoscopus.

Calliphyllum

And Callitricum. (from beautiful, and a leaf, or a hair). See

Adianthum nigrum.

Callositas

Callosity. See Callus.

Calmet

See Antimonium.

Calocatanos

(From beautiful, and

a cup; so called from the beauty of its flower and shape). See Papaver rubrum.

Calomelanos Turqueti

So Riverius calls a certain purgative medicine which he often used. It is thus prepared.

Merc. dule. Э j. gum. scammon. cum sulph. im-pregn vel rez. jalap. Э ss. mucilag. e gum. trag. q. s. f. pil. mediocr.

Calomelas

(From good, and black).

It used to be called Ethiops mineral. But calome/as is, in common acceptation, the mercurius dulc.sexties sub-limatus, which, if ground with the volatile spirits, becomes black: it is called also aquila alba. See Argentum Vivum.

Calomochanus

Or Calomochnus. See Adarces.

Calonia

So called from the place where it was procured. Calonian Myrrh. Hippocrates often prescribes it.

Calorimeter

An instrument contrived by Lavoisier and De la Place, to measure degrees of heat separated. Mr. Wedgewood, Philos. Trans. 1784, has offered some objections to this instrument, which M. Berthollet replies to in Chemical Statics, vol. i. p. 404.

Caltha

Or Calthula,(corrupted from

yellow). Marigold. See Calendula. Caltha arvensis, minima. See Calendula Arvensis.

Caltha palustris. See Calendula palustris.

Caltrops

It derives its name from the form of its fruit, which resembles those instruments of war which were cast in the enemy's way to annoy their horses. This plant is also called tribulus; trapa natans Lin. Sp. Pi. 182. The fruit is nutritious and demulcent, of use in diarrhoeas from abraded bowels, and it is said in the stone.