A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by Richard D. Hoblyn.

  • Richard Hoblyn
Date:
1858
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    A'LCOHOL OP SULPHUR. The name given to the hisulphiret of carimn by Lampadius, who regarded it as a compound of sulphur and hydrogen. See Carhoii. A'LDEHYDE. A newly discovered colourless liquid, one of the products of the oxida'ion of alcohol. Its name is derived from the first syllables of the words afcohol and (/t'%(/rogenatus. Aldehyde is, in fact, alcohol minus hydrogen. 1. Aidehydic or Acetous Acid is prepared from aldehyde, and may be regarded as acetic acid deprived of ai' equivalent of water. 2. Rusiu of Aldehyde is a ])roduct of the decomposition of aldehyde by alkalies, with the assistance of air. ALE. The fermented infusion of pale malted barley, usually com- bined with infusion of hops. See Deer. ALE'MBIC (Arabic). A chemical vessel, of glass or metal, formerly used in distillatiou, but now generally superseded by the retort. It consists of a Wy, cucurbit, matrass, or boiler; ahead, or capital, fitted to the body by grinding, or lute; and a tiilie, which con- ducts the distilled liquid into a receiver. Compare Retort A'LEMBROTH SALT (a Chaldee term, signifying the key of art). The Salt of Wisdom of the Alchemists. The name formerly given to the crystals which separate from a solution of corrosive muriate of mercury and muriate of ammonia in water. It is a compound of bichloride of mercury and sal ammoniac, from which tlie old white precipitate ofmerrury is made. ALEURO'METER (ciXtvfion, wheaten flour, ;utT()ov, a measure). An instrument, invented by M. Boland, for the purpose of indicating the panifiable properties of wheaten flour. The indications depend upon the expansion of the gluten contained in a given quantity of flour when freed by elutriation from its starch. ' ALEXIPHA'RMICS [aXi^u,, to repel, (fiapfiaiiov, poison). Alevnteria. Antidotes to poisons. A'LGiE [ulya, a sea-weed). Alnacece. The Sea-weed tribe of Cel- Inlar or Cryptogamic plants. Leafless, flowerless |dants, without any distmct axis ot vegetation, growing in water. Reproductive mutter, either absent or contained in the joints of the filaments, or deposited in peculiar thecal formed in the substance of the frond. Sporules without any proper integument. A'LGAROTH, POWDER OP. A compound of oxide and chloride of antimony, so called after a physician of Verona. It is a prmpitete, formed by pouring the sesqui-chloride of antimony into ALGE'pO {,\\yoi, pain). Inflammation of the neck of the bladder, occuiTing in gonorrhoia ; a term seldom used. -A'LGIA (a\yo<:, pain). A termination of words denoting, like -orfywa the presence of as in gastr-«/^za, pain of the stomach; odont-(i/(/ia, pain of the teeth, &c. ScL'^gl?^^ ''''•^ ^ ''^•^•^'^ chillness or rigour.— n^tlyS^ nosh). A kind of wheat; pottage, or drink AT pn'D^rS '° estrange). Mental derangement, lit. ; 1- , ''S. ./'•»'«, likeness). Pterygoid, or wine- like , as applied to processes of the sphenoid bone. Hc^ Alar is.
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