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A spurious species of gum elemi, little known in this country, though common in France.
See Sulphur.
See Macaxocotlifera.
Or Chicres. See Bovina affectio.
Dent. See Gramen caninum.
See Hyboucouhu.
See Piper Indicum.
Bals. de. This seems to have been an imposition. Salmon speaks, but without any proof, of its being brought from Chili. The Barbadoes tar, in which are mixed a few drops of the oil of aniseseed, is usually sold for it.
(From
a thousand, and
a leaf ). See Millefolium.
See Cort. Peruvianus.
Chilli. See Piper Indicum.
Chilli Indiae orient. See Zingiber.
(From
a lip ). A person with large prominent lips, either by nature or from disease. The term is applicable to fish, as well as the human species; called also labeo.
See Piper Indicum.
Or Chimalatl. See Corona Solis.
See Pernio.
(From chimia, chemistry, and
a physician). Physicians who make the science of chemistry subservient to the purposes of medicine. Physicians of this description are called also chemici and iatrochimici.
Paracelsus means, by this word, the powder which is separated from the flowers of saline ores.
See Aurantia sinensis.
See Cort. Peruv.
Chloli. See Furuncllus.
A name which the French give to the worms which are found under the toes of the negroes, and which are destroyed by the oil which flows out of the cashew nut shell.
(From
the hand, and
a seizure ). Gout in the hand. See Arthritis.
(From
the hand). See Bovina Affec1io.
(From
the hand). See Bryonia nigra. It is also a name for the centaury. See Centaurium.
N1um. A malignant ulcer, difficult to heal, with a hard, callous, and tumid margin; so called from Chiron the centaur, who is said to be the first who cured it. It is also called tetephium.
See Cheironomia.
(From
manus, and
pes, or
pono, to put ). In the preparation of anatomical subjects, they are a glove and a shoe of the scarf skin, with the nails adhering. They are separated with very little trouble after the cuticula loosens from the parts below by putrefaction; and this method is better than that of separating it by means of boiling water
 
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