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An antidote mentioned in Galen.
(From
and
a date).
The name of an electuary for discharging phlegm; as well as a medicine made of dates.
The name of an antidote in Myrepsus.
(From
to moisten). In
Galen's Exegesis it means effusions or ebullitions; also an affusion, or moistening any part.
(From
to differ). Difference. In medicine it comprehends the characteristic marks and signs which distinguish one disease from another. It also signifies a corruption of food in the stomach; and is then synonymous with Dyspepsia; which see.
(From
of
through, and
to carry). See Perspiratio.
(From
and
corrumpo, to corrupt). In Hippocrates it signifies the corruption of the foetus. See Abortus.
(From
to keep).
See Prophylace.
(From
internascor, to grow between). An interstice, a partition, or whatever intervenes between different parts. Galen explains it to be a nervous and cartilaginous protuberance in the middle of the junction of the os tibiae with the os femoris, which enters that large sinus, and separates the lower heads and processes of the os femoris, inserted into the sinus of the tibia. This substance only appears in recent subjects. In other places, the diaphysis is spoken of as a cavity, or chink, for the reception of some other part.
(From
and
the oil of pitch J. A composition in which liquid pitch is a chief ingredient.
(From
to put together, or fashion). Conformation. It signifies the replacing a luxated or fractured bone, as near as possible, in its proper situation.
(From
to smear over).
An unction or fomentation applied all over the body.
(From
to pass gently through, as the breath does). See Diamnes.
(From
to perspire, from
through, and
to breathe). See Perspiratio, and
DlAphoretica.
 
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