The Philadelphia medical dictionary : containing a concise explanation of all the terms used in medicine, surgery, pharmacy, botany, natural history, chemistry, and materia medica / compiled from the best authorities by John Redman Coxe.

  • John Redman Coxe
Date:
1817
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    Alcohol nitricum, spiritus nitri dul- cis. Alcohol /wtasste, rectified spirit of wine and kal.; acrid tincture of tar- tar; liiy of Paracelsus. Alcol, vinegar; spirit of wine. Alcola, aphtha or thrush; urinous salt, or tartar. Alcolixmus, reduction to powder by corrosion. AlcolUa, urine. Alcone, brass. Alcoolizatio,ihe rectification of vinous spirits. Alcor, calcined copper. Alcore, a sort of stone with spots re- sembling silver. Alcotol, antimony. Alcte, sambucus, or elder. Alcubrith, sulphur. Alcyon fiwviatilis, alcedo, or king's fisher. Alcyonium, bastard sponge; a spongy plant-like substance on the sea shore: five sorts are mentioned by Dioscorides. Alcyonium durum, hard basta'rd sponge. Alcyonium farrago, \ black- farrago Austrails, $ rna rine bastard sponge. Alcyonium foraminosum, > tuberose tuberosum, $ bastard sponge. Alcyonium molle, thready bastard sponge. Alcyonium vermiculatum, vermiculate bastard sponge. Aldabaram, the sesamoid bone of the great toe. Aldebac, birdlime. Alebria, nourishing meats. Alecharith, mercury. Alcctorius, a stone found in the giz- zards of cocks. Alectorolofihus, cock's-comb, yellow rattle, or rattle grass. Alegar, > vineffar ma(\e from malt. Allegar, \ & Aleimma, any ointment without wax, Aleion, water; copious. D Alrifiha, oil of vegetables; fat; any medicated oil. Alelaion, 7 an embrocation of salt Alelceum, $ and oil. Alema, meal, food. Alembaic, calcined lead. ic,} Alembaci. $ Alembic, mercury. Alembicus, > an alembic, moors- Alembicum, \ head, or still; quicksil- ver. Alembicus rostratus, an alembic with, a beak, or canal. Alembicus ccecus, the blind alembic without a beak, used for subliming. Alembroth, alkaline sals; the philoso- phical, or general solvent; the key of art. Alembroth desiccatum, sal tartari. Alemzadar,\ , , „,„„„•„ , ' }• crude sal ammoniac. Alemzadat,J Alenon, oil of almonds. Aleore, intermission of pain. Aleos, heat, or warmth. Alefiensis, a species of ash producing mahna. Ales, condensed; heaped, crowded, contracted; a saline compound. Ales crudum, crude ales, or those drops which often fall in the night in June. Alesch, alumen plumosum, or plu- mose alum. Aleton, meal. Aletudo, fatness. Aleurites, wheaten bread. Aleuron, the meal of wheat; lentils, or the seeds of darnels. Alexander 1 rallianus, a physician of Lydia, of the 6th century. Alexandria, daphne, or bay tree. Alexandrina, laurus Alexandria. Alexantlius, flos aeris, or flowers of copper. Alexicaca, \any amulet or antidote Alexicacon,]\o poison. Alexifiharmaca, antidotes to poison; sudorifics; amulets. Alexi/ipus, a physician to Alexander the great. Alexi/tyreticum, . nmti for fg_ Alextpyretos, Alexi/iyretum, :um,~) (any i '» f ver. m, J
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