A compendious medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, physiology, surgery, materia medica, chemistry, and practice of physic / collected from the most approved authors, by R. Hooper ... with corrections and additions.

  • Robert Hooper
Date:
1809
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    parent ; of a white colour, inclining to yellow, and a fragrant smell, moderately warm to the taste, Inn Iree from acrimony and bitterness, lis medicinal qualities are similar lo those of the turpentines. See Turpentines. CHIRAGR^. The gout in the joints of the hand; from yj;e the hand, and aypa., a seizure. CUIRURGI.A. Surgery. From %i*q, the hand, and ifyov, a wotk ; because surgical operations are perfonnod by the band CHLOROSIS. The green sickness; from ykxp- preen, pale. A genus of disease in the class cachexia, and order im- petiginc*of Cnllen: It is a disease which affects young females who labour under a suppression of the rheirses. Ii ia charac- terized by depraved appetite, bid digestion; htid paleness; great debility, palpitation, and a suppression of the menses. See Anienrrrtiqsai CIIOLEPOCIIGS DUCTUS. The common biliary duct, which conveys both cystic and hepatic bile into the intestine duodenum ; from x0^' ^''e ^ ^X5.'1',0 r(-'ce've- CH0LER.(\. The colera morbus; from x»\nb\]e, and pm a flux. A genus of disease arranged by Culleu in (be class neuroses, and order spasmi. It is a purging and vomiting of bile, with anxiety, painful gripiags, ipasnvs of the abdominal muscles, and those of the .thighs. There are two species o! tins genus: 1. Cholera $,]iont<inea, \x\nch happens, in hot season*) without any mamlest cause : 2, Cltjli.rti tuc'wentails, which oc- curs after the use uf food ib.ti djgesfeib slowly, and irritate*, AI. M. An emetic ; plentiful use of diluenis; opium. CHORDA TY.MPAM. A branch of neive that passes through the tympanum. ('Il)RDEE. A spasmodic contraction of the penis, that 3practrmss attends gonorrhea. CHOREA SANCTIVITI. St. Vitqs's dance. Convulsive motions of the limbs. Ti is a genus of drsease, arranged by Cm- Jen, in the class nenrnses, and order sprntmi • from y_o^:<:, dane- ir*2C- M. RI. Emetics ; cathartics ; valerian ; cinchona; iron; cold bath; electrici'v; a dnily exhibition uf purgative modi-
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