Quincy's Lexicon medicum. A new medical dictionary ... To which is added, a glossary of obsolete terms from Castelli, Blanchard, Quincy, James, etc / [Revised] By R. Hooper.

Robert Hooper

Date:: 1802

Credit: Quincy's Lexicon medicum. A new medical dictionary ... To which is added, a glossary of obsolete terms from Castelli, Blanchard, Quincy, James, etc / [Revised] By R. Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

114/1078

$H is now feldom uft-d, a folution of alum being moftly fubftituted. Cataplasma cumini. This is a warm and ftimulating poultice, and was formerly much ufed as an irritat- ing antiftptic application to gangren- ous ulcers, and the like. It is now feldom ordered. CaTAPLASMA sinapeos. Muf- tard poultices are often applied to the foies of the feet in fevers, where there is a great determination of blood to the head. They are alfo applied under other circumftances, where a ftimulus is wanted. CataputIa, (Cataputia, a, f. ya\ct7zv'na. ] from xcticcwQu-f to have an ill favour ; or from the Italian caca- puzza, which has the fame meaning : fo named from its foetid fmell). Spurge. Cataputia major. See Rici- nus. Cataputia minor. The plant fo called in the pharmacopoeias, is the Euphorbia lathy ris ; umbella qaadrifi- da, dichotoma, foliis qppofitis integerri- mis, of Linnaeus. The feeds pofiefs purgative properties ; but if exhibit- in an over dole, prove draftic and poi- fonous, a quality peculiar to all the euphorbia. Cataract, [Cataracla, a, f. 'icipctxla. y from ya.Tcc(:ac<ju.-i to confound or difturb ; becaufe the fenfe of vifi- on is confounded, if not deftroyed). See Caligo. Catarrh us, (Catarrhus, /, m. xcAaqoocf a defluxion 5 from to flow down). Coryza A catarrh. An increafed fecretion of mucus from the membranes of the nofe, fauces, and bronchiae, with pyrexia, and at- tended with fneezing, cough, thirft, lafiitude, and want of appetite. It is a genus of difeafe in the clafs pyrex- ia, and order profiwvia, of Cullen. There are two fpecies of catarrh, viz. catarrhus a frigore, which is very com- mon, and is called a cold in the head; and catarrhus a ccntagione, the influ- enza, which fometimes feizes a whole city. Catarrh is alfo fymptomatic of feveral other difeafes. Catechu, [Catechu,x\. Ind. It is laid, that, in the Japanefe language, bate fignifies a tree, and chit, juice). ’Terra japonic a. Japan earth. An extra# prepared in India from the juice of the Mimofa catechu fpinisJli- pularibus, foliis bipinna tip multijugis, glandulis partialium fingulis, fpicis axil- laribus geminis feu ternis pedunculatis, of Linnaeus, Claf~. Polygamia. Or- der. Monoecia ; by boiling the wood and evaporating the deco#iqn by the heat of the fun. In its pureft ftate, it is a dry, pulverable fubltance, out- wardly of a reddilh colour, internally of a thining dark brown, tinged with a reddifh hue ; in the mouth it dif- covers conflderable adftringency, fuc- ceeded by a fweetifh mucilaginous tafle. It may be advantageoufly em- ployed for moll purpofes where an adftringent is indica^fd, and is par- ticularly ufeful in alvine fluxes where aflringents are required. Betides this, it is employed alfo in uterine profluvia, in laxity and debility of the vifeera in general; and it is an excellent to- pical adftringent, when fuffered to diflolve leifurely in the mouth, for ' laxities and ulcerations of the gums, aphthous ulcers in the mouth, and ftmilar affections. This extra# is the bafis of feveral formuke in our pharmacopoeias, particularly of a tinc- ture and an extra#: but one of the beft forms under .which it can be ex- hibited, is that of a Ample infufion in warm water with a proportion of cinnamon, for by this means it is at once freed of its impurities and im- proved by the addition of the aro- matic. Fourcroy fays that catechu is prepared from the feeds of a kind of palm, called areca. Cathartics, (Cathartica, fc. me- die ament a, ; from j to purge). Thofe medicines, which taken internally increafe the numbu$