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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    base ture in which the bone is birth. Previous to the-fifth month it is called embryo. ollicle, a small bag; applied to glands, slit, but not completely di-| Fomentation, a sort of par- vided. Also, a deep and} tial bathing, applying hot long depression i in part. flannels to any part, dipped 4istula, a term in surgery,{ in medicated decoctions, applied toa long and sinous; whereby steams are com- ulcer that has_a narrow| municated to the parts, their opening, and which some-| vessels «re relaxed,and their thing leads toa larger AN morbid action sometimes ly, and has.no disposition to! remove. heal. | Fontanel fontanelia, or fons | pulsatilis, the space be- tween the bones of the head, from birth until the third year of life. The larger space 1s in the fore part of the head, between the fron- tal and parietal bones; the Mlezor, i name of several] lesser space is between the muscles, the office of which] parietal and occipital bones. is to bend the parts into; Foramen, a little opening. which they are inserted. Flexuous, full of turnings and }) windings, a stem is so nam- ed which is zigzag, forming | anglesalternately from right to left and from left to right. | used to denote any sub- stance or mixture added to assist the fusion of metals. | Fossa, a little depression or Fluxion, aterm mostly appli-| _ sinus. ed by chemists, to signify | Fracture, a broken bone. _ the change. of metals, or) Frenulum, the cataneous other bodies, from the solid into the fluid state, by ap-] plication of heat. Fetus, the child is so called} re a the fifth month till its | a common name for all the soft parts of an animal. It is also applied to leaves, fruit, &c., which have the appearance or consistence of fles plied E, substances imbued with contagion. Formula, a little form of pre- scriptions, such as physi- cians direct in extempora- _ tion from the greater forms in pharmacepias, &c. tongue to the infra-lingual cavity. It is sometimes, in, infancy, so short as to pre- | ventthe child iepmmanckng.