Volume 1

The New Sydenham Society's lexicon of medicine and the allied sciences : (based on Mayne's Lexicon) / by Henry Power and Leonard W. Sedgwick.

  • Henry Power
Date:
MDCCCLXXXI [1881]-MDCCCXCIX [1899]
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Credit: The New Sydenham Society's lexicon of medicine and the allied sciences : (based on Mayne's Lexicon) / by Henry Power and Leonard W. Sedgwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ALPINE - ALSO-KEKED. primary form of gigno, to beget.) Growing on the Alps or high mountaias, as the Eugenia alpigena. Al'pine. (L. alpinus, from Alpes. G. alpisch.) Belonging to, or living on, the Alps, or other high mountain ranges. £L, cli'mates. See GLimate, alpine. Alpi'ni. A Venetian physician and botanist, born 1653, died 1617. .A., barsamum. (After Prosper Alpini, Avho wrote a learned treatise upon it.) A name for the Amyris Gileadensis, or Balm of Gilead. Alpin'ia. (In honour of Alpini.) A Genus of the Nat. Ord. Zingiberacece. A peren- nial plant with terminal inflorescence; inner lateral lobes of the corolla small or absent; filament not extended beyond the anther ; fruit baccate. A., al'ba. The source of the ovoid China cardamom; perhaps a synonym of Amomum medium. A. allu'grlias. Hab. India. A species which supplies an inferior but very aromatic species of Galangal. The juice of the root is used both ex- ternally and internally in gout; the root mixed with wine is used as an embrocation in painful affections, and when powdered is given in colic. £l. aromat'ica. A Brazilian plant; the roots are sweetly aromatic, and are employed as carminative and stomachic. JEL. cardamo'mum. A synonym of the Elettaria cardamomwm. The plant which produces the lesser cardamom seeds, formerly referred to the Amomum cardamomtmi, or Amomum repens. H., cbinen'sis. A synonym of A. officina- rum. A., exalta'ta. The Henealmia exaltata. £L, gralan'gra. (F. galanga officinal, g. de la Chine ; Hind, and Duk. Bara-Kulipjan ; Tam. Pera-Rattai.) A perennial Indian plant; stem six or seven feet high ; leaves broad, sessile, with a whitish edge; panicle oblong, branched; lip unguiculate, bifid. The tubers are used as a substitute for ginger, and are given in infusion in fevers, rheumatism, and catarrhal affections. It is stimulant, carminative, stomachic, and ex- pectorant; useful in nervous disorders, and in incontinence of urine. See Galanga. £L, kbulin'^gran. A variety of the A. chinensis. Its root resembles the Lesser galan- gal ; it is stimulant, carminative, stomachic, and expectorant. It is used instead of ginger, and in nervous disorders and incontinence of urine. A. nu'tans. Hab. Malay. A species which aff'ords a rhizome, which has been con- founded with Galangal. A. odora'ta. Hab. British Guiana. The leaves are employed by the natives to wrap the body in for the purpose of producing diaphoresis. A., officlna'rum. Hab. China. The source of the Lesser galangal. .A., pa'co-sero'ca. Hab. Brazil. The root, which has a sweet aromatic odour, is car- minative, stomachic, and alexipharmic ; and is given in doses of 30 grains. Externally it is applied to foul ulcers. (W.) A., racemo'sa. Hab. Central America and West Indies. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, recurved at the point; raceme spiked; bracts ventricose; lip trifid. Stimulant and carminative. The fruit is said to be poisonous. A., tubula'ta. The Henealmia exaltata. Alpi'nus. (L. the Alps. alpisch.) Growing, belonging to, or living on the Alps. Al'quifou. (F. alquifoux; G. Bafenerz, Glasurerz.) A kind of lead-ore containing plumbic sulphuret, which when broken looks like antimony; used by potters, who mix a small portion of manganese with it, to glaze their coarser earthenwares, thence called potter's ore. Alra^'chctS. Arabic for Plumbum, or lead. (Quincy.) Alrat'ica. Term used by Albucasis for a partial or total imperforation of the vagina; also a small foramen. (Quincy.) Al'safat. (Arab.) Same as Safat, to which the article al is here prefixed. Alsafa'tum. Same as Alsafat. Alsa'macll. Arabic term for the large foramen or hole in the petrous portion of the temporal bone, forming the meatus auditorius internus. (Quincy.) Alsan'ders. The Smyrnium olusatrum. Al'saphat. Same as Alsafat. Alsapha'tum. Same as Alsafat. Al'secll. Arabic for Alumen plumosum. See Alesh. Al'selat. Arabic for the oxide of copper, or burnt copper. (Ruland ) Alse'macll. Same as Alsamach. Alse'ne. The native name at tlae Cape of Good Hope of the Artemisia Afra. Used as a vermifuge and as a remedy in jaundice. Alsid'ium. A Genus of the Chlorophyllous Family Jthodomelece, Class Carposporece, Sub- kingdom Thallophyta. Thallus in thread-like forked or feathery branches, polysiphonous, and jointed. A, helmintlioclior'ton. About 16' high, of the fineness of a bristle, simple or somewhat forked, purple-red when fresh, pale brown when dry. Found in the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas. Furnishes, along with other species, Cor- sican moss. Alsina'ceous. (AXo-ts, leaping.) Having a polypetalous corolla with intervals between the petals. Alsinas'trum. Old name for a species of Elatine, according to Linnaeus. (Quincy.) Alsi'ne. ('AXo-ts, growth. F.mouronjG. Miere.) A Genus of the Suborder Alsinece, Nat. Ord. Caryophyllacece. A, avicula'rum. The Stellaria media. A. me'dia. The Stellaria media. The plant known to the ancients under this name has been referred to Stellaria nemorum (Desfontaine), to Cerastium aquaticum (Sprengel), and to Parie- taria cretica (Fee.) It was used locally in inflam- mations, abscesses, ulcers, aff'ections of the eyes, and as an injection to the ears. (Waring.) A, vulgra'ris. The Stellaria media. Alsin'ese- (G. MierengewUchse.) A Sub- order of the Nat. Ord. Caryophyllacece. Sepals distinct and opposite the stamens when the latter are equal to them in number. Alsiracos'tum. Arabic name of a com- pound purgative medicine much praised by Mesne in Operib. f. 113, as a remedy in certain burning fevers. AlSO'-Bisztra. Austria-Hungary. Al- kaline chalybeate waters. Also'-Erzterg'aly. Austria-Hungary; County of Neograd. A chalybeate spring with carbonic acid. Also'-ZL6]£ed. Austria-Hungary; near Kaschau. Sulphur waters of 21° C. (69-8° F.) Used in gouty and rheumatic diseases.
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