The family physician, and guide to health : in three parts ... Together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of the Asiatic cholera: a glossary explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index; to which is added an appendix / By Daniel H. Whitney.

  • Whitney, Daniel H.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The family physician, and guide to health : in three parts ... Together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of the Asiatic cholera: a glossary explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index; to which is added an appendix / By Daniel H. Whitney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Enteritis, inflammation of the| Surrey. It is at present intestines. prepared from sea water. Entero, names compounded | Hpulatic, that which pro- with this word belong to] motes the formation of skin. things which resemble an | Errhine, that which excites. intestine. sneezing. Epigastrium, the part imme- Eructation, belching. diately over the stomach. Equilibrium, equal “wight. Epigtotiis, the cartilage at; Eruption, a discoloration, or the root of the tongue that! spots on the skin; as the falls upon the glottis orup-| eruption of small pox, per opening of the wind-| measles, nettlerash, itch,, pipe or trachea. While the; &c. back of the tongue is drawn | Erythema, inflammatory backwards in swallowing,| blush. A morbid redness. the epiglottis is put over} of the skin, as observed up- the opening, shutting the} on the cheeks of hectic, pa- passage, in order to prevent| _ tients. food or drink from passing | Bschar, the portion of fiesls dawn the windpipe. that is destroyed by the ap- “pidemic, any disease that plication of a caustic, and attacks many people at the | which sloughs away. same place. sive. . Epidermis, the cuticle of} Hsculent, eatable, good for carf-skin. food. Epiploon, see omentum. | Etherial, a term applied to Epispastic, a blister ; having| any highly rectified esssen- the qualities of a blister. tail oil or spirit. Epistazis, bleeding at the| Lthmoid, sieve-like. nose with pain or fullness Eupeptie, that which is easy of the head. of digestion. Epsom, the name of a village | Exacerbation, the increase of in Surrey, about eigliteen; any disease. miles from London, near | Mxanthemata, all diseases be- which there is amineral] ginning with fever and fol- spring called Epsom water.|. lowed by an éruption on the Epsom saliz, sulphate of} skin. . » magnesia. Jt was former-| Excitability, that. condition ly obtained by boiling down| of living bodies. wherein the mineral water found in} they can ‘be made to exhib- igh ! wal nomena, which distinguis + s ,