This section is from the book "The London Medical Dictionary", by Bartholomew Parr. Also available from Amazon: London Medical Dictionary.
Ltica, (from
sweat, and
to judge). Signs taken from sweat.
Or Hidropyretos, (from
sweat, and
morbus, or
fever). See
Sudor Anglicus.
See Cenchros. Hidrotica, and Hidrotopsea,(from
sweat). See Sudorifica. Hidrus. See AEris flos.
An electuary formerly prepared under this name, which hath long been neglected.
(From
holy, and
a disease,) supposed to be the disorder which our Saviour cured in those who were said to be possessed of devils. (See Convulsio.) A continued kind of convulsion, without pain or loss of sensibility.
Holy bitter; now called pulvis aloeticus; formerly hiera logadii, and made in the form of an electuary, with honey: the species are now kept in dry powder, prepared by mixing socotorine aloes, one pound, with three ounces of white canella.
(From
holy, and
an herb). Holy herb. A species of verbena. Dios-corides. See Verbena.
See Hieracium.
(From
sacer). The name of a malagma, formerly appropriated to disorders of the abdominal viscera; named from its divine virtues.
(From
sacer, and
fire). An erythematous inflammation.
See Antrum Genae.
(From
a thong of leather). Relaxation, or lengthening, and smallness of the uvula, when it hangs down like a thong.
Properly a leather thong, or strap; but in medicine it is a laxness of the uvula, when it becomes long and slender, called also cion. It differs from the clonis, which is a thickened uvula.
Indian and Persian names of Asafoetida, q. v.
Ru. See lndicum.
See Caryophillus aromaticus.
(From
equus, a horse or mare).
The rennet of a colt; and cheese made of mares' milk.
(From
a horse, and
a stone). A calculus found in the stomach or intestines of a horse. See Calculus.
 
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