Instructions to mothers and nurses on the management of children in health and disease : comprehending directions for regulating their diet, dress, exercise, and medicine ; with a variety of prescriptions adapted to the use of the nursery, and an index of medical terms / James Kennedy.

  • Kennedy, James, 1803-1868
Date:
1825
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Credit: Instructions to mothers and nurses on the management of children in health and disease : comprehending directions for regulating their diet, dress, exercise, and medicine ; with a variety of prescriptions adapted to the use of the nursery, and an index of medical terms / James Kennedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GLOSSARY. Abdominal, a. relating to the abdomen or belly. Absorbents, s. vessels in the body, which imbibe the chyle and other particles of matter. Acescency, s. a tendency to sourness. Acridness, s. what causes a hot bitter taste. Adolescence, s. the stage of life succeed- ing childhood, youth. Affusion, s. the pouring of water on the body. Agitative, a. having the power of mov- ing or shaking any thing. Albuminous, a. having the property of being coagulable by heat and other chemical agents. Alcoholic, a. consisting of rectified spirit. Alkaline, a. having the qualities of those substances which, when ming- led with acids, produce ebullition and effervescence. Alt^-tiathis^ B. chancre ur .v»«i successions. Alvine, a. forming a part of, or belong- ing to, the bowels. Ammoniacal, a. having the properties of ammonia or spirits of hartshorn. Ambient, a. inclosing on all sides. Animative, a. having the power of giv- ing or supporting life. Analytically, ad. so as to separate com- pound bodies into simple. Analogous, a. having relation, resem- blance, proportion, or parallel to something else. Appreciable, a. capable of having a price or value set on it. Apoplectic, a. relating to, or seized with an apoplexy. Arterial, a. contained in the arteries or vessels which carry the bright red blood. Assimilative, a. having the power of converting food to nourishment. Athletic, a. sinewy, strong of body. Atony, s. want of tone or vital tension. Atrophy, a. emaciation or leanness pro- ceeding from defect in the quantity, quality, or application of the nutrient part of the blood. Auricles, s. two muscular bags at the base of the heart are so named. Azote or Nitrogen, s, an elementary principle which constitutes four-fifths of the volume of atmospheric air: it has no smell or taste, extinguishes flame, and is fatal to animal life. Benzoic, a. having the properties or pe- culiar acid furnished by the resin of the benzoin-tree. Boracic, a. relating to borax, or the acid of which this salt forms the 'base. Buoyant, a. floating or swimming on the surface. Butyric, a. relating to butter or the acid it yields. Caliber, s. the bore or longitudinal cav- ity of a thing. Caloric, s. that simple fluid to which the production of neat and combus- tion is referred. Capillary, a. small as hairs: the last branches of living vessels are.s o named. Capsule, s. a membranous production inclosing a part of the body as a bag. Chi-i ruStvixtcvw, s giil)8^c,ri0<10 whiofa allay pain and expel flatulency. Carbonated, a, containing carbon or the pure inflammable part of charcoal, or the black residue of vegetable matters whose volatile principles have been entirely dissipated by neat. Cartilage, s. gristle, a white elastic glis- tening substance growing to bones. Catarrh, s. a cold in the head, with in- creased discharge of a watery fluid from the nose. Cellular, a. consisting of cells; a mem- brane composed of layers and fibres variously joined together, forms the connecting medium in every part of the body. Cerebel, s. the small brain, situated in the hindmost and lowermost part of the head. Cerebral, a. relating, or belonging, to the brain. Cervical, a. situated in, or belonging to, the neck. Chalybeate, a. impregnated with iron. Chronic, a. diseases are so named when they are of long duration, and mostly without fever. Chyle, s. the milk-like fluid separated by particular vessels from the chyme or mass of food after it has passed, in digestion, through the stomach Into