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errhine in producing a discharge from the nose when snuffed up insmall pinches, and in this manner may act on the eyes by stimulatingthe glands.Eye-waters. See De Brune's and Collyria for several receipts.

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False. An objectionable term applied to some barks, such as Canellaalba, called False Winter's Bark.

Fard, the French term for Rouge and other paints used for the face.See Rouge and Paints.

Farina. L. E. D. P. Flour of Wheat. Triticum estivum el Kibernum.It contains 77 per cent, of starch, 20 per cent, of gluten, and 3 percent, of sugar, albumen, gum, and phosphate of lime. Its nutritiveproperties seem to depend on the starch, while the gluten gives ittenacity. There is enough of farina in bran to render it useful inpreparing lotions and poultices.Medicinally it is used for cataplasms, in form of bread for making pills,and in form of flour for dusting erysipelatous swellings, &c.

Fat is animal oil or grease, and several kinds were formerly in use, butare now in discredit, such as badger's fat, human fat, &c.

Febrifuge. Good against fever.

Fecujla, the powdered root of certain plants, freed from impurities bywashing, of which the following are examples:

Fecula Bryoni/E. P. Fecula of Bryony. Take q. s. of the freshroots of white bryony, carefully washed, rasp them, express the juice,mix with q. s. of water, strain, set aside till the fecula subside,decant off the water, and dry the fecula in the shade with a gentleheat. When it is dry reduce it to powder. It has the same quali-ties as the root.In the same way are made fecula of arum, iris, arrow-root, potato, &c.

Fel. See Ox-gall.

Fennel. See Funiculi Semina.

Fenugrec. P. Trigonella fcenum grwcum. The seeds and flour are fa-rinaceous, and emollient, in dysentery, diarrhoea, &c.Externally in form of cataplasm.

Fenouillette, a foreign liqueur prepared by macerating jij of fennelseeds, and gviij of fennel leaves in Oij of alcohol and Oiv of water,with Jx of sugar. Then strain.

Fern. See Filicis Radix.

Ferri Acetas. D. See Acetas Ferri.

Ferri Liquor Alkalini. See Liquor Ferri.