A comprehensive medical dictionary : containing the pronunciation, etymology, and signification of the terms made use of in medicine and the kindred sciences.

Joseph Thomas

Date:: 1865

Credit: A comprehensive medical dictionary : containing the pronunciation, etymology, and signification of the terms made use of in medicine and the kindred sciences. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$MS iET per. See .32s.] The rust of a metal, especially copper. The Pharmacopceial name (Lond. and Ed. Ph.) of the impure subacetate of copper. See Verdigris. JEa9* gen. iE'ris. The Latin term for copper or brass. JEs Co-rin'thi-um.* [yEs, brass, and Corin'thius, belonging to Corinth.] A kind of brass produced, as it is said, by an accidental mixture of metals at the burning of Corinth. It appears, how- ever, from Pliny, to have been in use in Corinth long before the burning of that city. JEs Us'tnm.* [^Es, copper, and iis'tus, burnt; from u'ro, us'turn, to burn.] Burnt copper; a preparation consisting of equal parts of coi>per and rough brimstone, laid in strata, with a 6inall quantity of common salt sprinkled on each layer, and exposed to the fire till the brimstone is burned out. It has been called JEs Vcn'eris ( Venus being one of the ancient names for copper), jEs cre- ma'tum, Ci'nis se'ris, Cro'cus Ven'eris, etc. iEsculin, or iEsculine, es'ku-lin. An alkaloid lately discovered in the bark of the jEsculus Hippocastanttm, or horse- chestnut ; supposed to be a febrifuge. iEstates,* es-ta'tez. [The nominative plural of xs'tas, summer.] Heat-spots; freckles; sunburnings. Sec Ephelis. jEstliesia,* es-the'se-a. [From diadd- vojxat, to perceive, to feel.] Per- ception; feeling; sensibility. jSSstliesis,'* es-the'sis. [From the same.] Feeling or sensibility; also, sense or sensation. iEs-thet'ic. [JEstSiet/icus; from the same.] Pertaining to the under- standing, or mental perception. The Latin term, in the plural neuter (jEs- thet'ica), forms the name of an order of the class Neurotica in Dr. Good's ar- rangement. iEs-thet'ics. [iEsthet'ica; from the same.] Literally, the science of the sensations or perceptions. The science which explains the cause of the pleasure or displeasure derived from the contem- plation of the works of nature or art. vEs-ti-va'tion, or Es-4i-va'tion. [iEstiva'tio, o'in's; from sesti'vo, seati- m'tum, to spend the summer, to re- tire for the summer season.] The stato in which the different parts of the flower arc folded in the bud: prefloration. JEs-tu-a'ri-um.* [From sen'tits, heat, boiling water, the tide.] Literally, a place where there is boiling or raging water: hence, an estuary (i.e. 24 an arm of the sea, or part of a river in which the tide rises). A stove for apply- ing dry heat to all parts of the body at once ; also a vapor-bath. iEstus,* es'tus. (See preceding arti- cle.) Heat, as well natural heat in in- tense degree, as that which is the effect of inflammatory disease. iEs'tus Vo-Iat'I-cus.* The sudden flushing of the face; also Strophulus volatieus, or wild-fire rash of children. JE'tas,*gen.JE-ta'tis. Age. Differ- ent writers have designated different stages in the lifo of man; but perhaps the most usual division is into five periods, as follow :— 1. Infancy (infan'tia), generally con- sidered to extend to about the seventh year, or to the second dentition. 2. Childhood (pueri'tia), extending from the seventh to the fourteenth or fifteenth year, the period of puberty. 3. Adoles- cence (adolescen'tia), or Youth, reaching in males from the age of about fifteen to twenty-five; in females, from thirteen to twenty-one. 4. Adult Age, or Man- hood (viril'itas or se'tas viri'lis, the manly age), extending from the close of adolescence to about the fiftieth year. 5. Old Age (senec'tus), which compre- hends the declining portion of life. The Roman writers again subdivided Manhood into different stages, as iE'TAS Firma'ta, the prime or full strength of man,—the age from thirty to thirty-five; jE'tas Matu'ra, the age of maturity or prudence,—the age of fifty. Old age was variously subdivided, as jE'tas Provec'ta, advanced age; JE'tas Ingraves'cens, the age when the weight of years begins to be sensibly felt; JE'tas Decrep'ita or Crep'ita, decrepit age: reckoned from the sixtieth year, and end- ing in death. iE-the're-a.* [Neuter plural of ivtlte'- reus, ethereal.] The Pharmacopceial name (U.S. Ph.) for preparations of ether. See Ether. uE'thl-ops,* or E'tliB-ops.* [From aiQiop, black.] A name anciently given to several black powders. iE'tliiopH An-ti-m©-m-a'li*i.* A term applied to a compound of ^Ethiops mineral with the sulphuret of antimony. JE'tliiops Ular'tial. An old name for the deutoxide of iron. iE'tliiopsMin'e-ral. The black sul- phuret of mercury {Hydrar'gyri Sulpku- re'titm Ni'grum), As an anthelmintic, it has been called Poudrc Vermifuge M<srett- rielle (poodit veVineTuzh' meVkU're-ell').$