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A GLOSSARY.

when what is digested becomes acid, or possessed of other morbidqualities.

Dyspnoea. A difficulty in breathing.

Dysuria, or Dysury. A difficulty or heat in voiding urine.

Eccoprotics. Such medicines as gently purge the body.

Efflorescence. A spot, or eruptive appearance.

Emmenagogue. Medicines which excite the menstrual discharge.

Emollient. Softening.

Empyreumatic. A smell resembling that of burnt substances.

Endemic. A disease peculiar to a certain district of country.

Enema, Clyster, or Lavement, are equivalent with each other, an'Jsignify any liquid medicine injected into the anus.

Epidemic. A disease generally infectious.

Errhine. Medicines to snuff up the nose, and that, by causing sneez-ing, purge the head.

Exacerbation. The increase of any disease.

Exanthemata. Certain wheals or breakings out on the body; efflo-rescences, or pustules.

Faeces. Excrements.

Flatulent. Producing wind.

Foetid. Emitting an offensive smell.

Foetus. The child before birth, or when born before the proper period,is thus termed.

Formula. A prescription

? ungus. Proud flesh.

Gangrene. Mortification in its first beginning ; caused by a stoppageof the circulation, followed by putrefaction.

Gestation. The time of a woman's going with child.

Glottis. Is that chink of the larynx that lies at the root of the tongue.

Gonorrhoea. A morbid running of venereal virus from the privities.

Gummata. > , T ,

C <rV ( Venereal excrescences.

Gymnastic. Exercise taken with a view to preserve or restore health.

The ancient physicians reckoned this an important branch of medicine.Hvemoptoe.Haemoptysis.

Haemorrhoids. The piles.Haemorrhage. Discharge of blood.Hectic Fever. A slow consuming fever, generally attending a bad

habit of body, or some incurable and deep-rooted disease.Herculean. Powerful; of the greatest force.Hypochondriacism. Low spirits.Hypochondriac Viscera. The liver, spleen, &c.; so termed from their

situation in the hypochondriac, or upper and lateral parts of the belly.Ichor. Thin bad matter.Imposthume. A collection of purulent matter.Inflammation. A surcharge of blood, and an increased action of the

vessels, in any particular part of the body.Inguinal. Has reference to what is commonly called the groin.Lavement. See Enema.Ligature. Bandage.

> A spitting of blood from the lungs.