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A GLOSSARY.

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Atrophy. A species of consumption, when tire hod) or some memberof it is not nourished, but decays and wastes away gradually.

Attenuant. Such medicines as open the pores of the body, and rendeimore fluid thick and glutinous humours.

Bile, or Gall. A fluid which is secreted by the liver into the gall-bladder,and from thence passes into the intestines, in order to promote diges-tion.

Bronchotomy. That operation which opens the wind-pipe by incision,to prevent suffocation.

Bronchia. The branches of the wind-pipe dispersed through the lungs

Bubo. A tumor with inflammation in the groin.

Cacochymy. An unhealthy state of the body.

Capillary Vessels. The smallest branches of the veins and arteries.

Caries. A rottenness of the bone.

Cathartics. Purges.

Chronic. A disease whose progress is slow, in opposition to acute.

Chyle. A milky fluid separated from the aliment in the intestines, andconveyed by the absorbents into the blood, to supply the waste of theanimal body.

Circulation. The motion of the blood, which is driven by the heartthrough the arteries, and returns by the veins.

Colliquative Evacuations. Dangerous fluxes with profuse clammy sweats

Comatose. Sleepy.

Constipation. A constriction, or binding together.

Conglobate Gland. A simple gland.

Conglomerate. A compound gland.

Contagion. Infectious matter.

Crisis. A certain period in the progress of a disease, from whence adecided alteration, either for the better or the worse, takes place.

Critical. Decisive, or important.

Critical Days. The fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth,fourteenth, seventeenth, and twenty-first, are by some authors de-nominated critical days, because febrile complaints have been ob-served to take a decisive change in these periods.

Cruciform. In botany, a plant having a flower consisting of four petalsdisposed in the form of a cross.

Cucurbitaceous. In botany, a species of gourd.

Cutis, or Cuticle. The skin.

Cutaneous. Of or belonging to the skin.

Debility. Weakness; feebleness; decay of strength.

Delirium. A temporary derangement of the mental faculties.

Deleterious. Deadly; destructive.

Desiccative. Drying; tending to dry.

Diaphoretic. Heating; exciting perspiration.

Diaphragm. A membrane separating the cavity of the chest from thatof the belly.

Diarrhoea. A flux, or looseness of the belly.

diuretic. A medicine that promotes the secretion of urine.

)rastic. Is applied to such purgative medicines as are- violent or harshin their operation.

)yspepsia, A difficulty of digestion, or rather a depraved one; as

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