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See Sophia.
See Cheiriater.
See Sextarius.
(Greek.) See Membrana.
Chian wine. A wine of the island now called Scio. Dioscorides says it is less disposed to intoxicate than any other sort.
See Stamen.
The small parts at the roots of plants by which they are propagated. Miller's Diet.
(From
to make warm.) See
Fotus.
See Cadmia.
Green. See Chloros.
And Chloros, (from
).
A palish green colour, shining with a sort of splendour, and inclining to watery: it is applied to leguminous plants before they are dry or come to perfection.
fine soft wool; but sometimes chaff or bran; (from
to grind, or rasp.) Sound, or wind.
SeeChu.
The name of a black plaster, mentioned by Celsus, made of a spuma argenti boiled in oil, added to a proper quantity pf resin.
a funnel, (from
to pour).
See Infundibulum. A funnel, or furnace for melting metals.
See Coffea.
This is said by Dr. Alston to be compounded of two Indian words, (from choco, sound, and atte, water; because of the noise made in its preparation). See Cacao.
The Trepan; so called by Galen and P. AEgineta, from
the nave of a wheel; (from
to tear, or vellicate). See Trepanum.
(From
a swine). Strumous swellings, of a malignant quality, painful to the touch, and exasperated by medicines. See Scrofula.
(From
a swine, and
destruction; so called from being dangerous if eaten by hogs). See Bardana minor.
(From
a hog). See Scrofula.
(From
bile). See Intestina.
(From the same). The small intestines which contain bile. See Ilium.
Cholagogues, also colegon, (from
bile, and
to drive out or evacuate). By cholagogues the ancients meant only such purging medicines as expelled the bilious faeces. We retain the word for such purgatives as are found most useful when bile offends, or are of service when the liver is diseased. Of this kind are rhubarb and calomel, which are supposed to increase the bilious discharge more powerfully than any other medicine. Aloes and taraxacum have been considered as useful in occasioning the bile to pass freely into the intestines, though with little reason. See Cathartica.
 
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