Lexicon medicum, or, Medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, botany, chemistry, materia medica, midwifery, mineralogy, pharmacy, physiology, practice of physic, surgery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine : selected, arranged, and compiled from the best authors / by Robert Hooper.

Robert Hooper

Date:: 1832

Credit: Lexicon medicum, or, Medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, botany, chemistry, materia medica, midwifery, mineralogy, pharmacy, physiology, practice of physic, surgery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine : selected, arranged, and compiled from the best authors / by Robert Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$S. Globose; as In MercuHalis annua. 3. Semilunar; as in Fragaria vesca. 4. Angular; as in Tulipa gesneriana. 5. Linear; as in the grasses and Protea. 6. Uidymous; as in Vigitalis purpurea. 7. Arrow-shaped; as in Crocus satiuus. 8 ^yid, parted bail' way down in two ; as in the grasses and Erica. 9. Shield-like, or peltate, of a round shape; as in Taxus baccata. 10. Ventate, with a tooth-like margin; as in Taxus baccata. 11. Hairy ; as in Lamium album. 12. Bitorn, with two divisions like horns; as In Arbutus uva ursi and Vaccinium myrtillus. 13. Cristate, having cartilaginous points. 14. Crucial; as in Mellitis. 15. Double or twin-like; as in Callisia and I Jar a. 16. Rostrate; as in Osbeckia. 17. SitouZate, or awl-shaped; as in the genus iJo- ella. 18. Gwdate; as in Cupraria. 19. Reniform, kidney-shaped; as in Tradescantia and Oinora. 20. Trigonal, or three-cornered ; as in the /Jose. 21. Tetragonal, or four-cornered, as in Cannabis and Dictamnus. From their situation: 22. Erect, with its base upon the apex of the fila- ment ; as in Tulipa gesneriana. 23. Incumbent, lying horizontally upon the filament, as in Amaryllis formossima. 24. Versatile, when the incumbent anther adheres so loosely to the filament, that the least agitation of the plant puts it in motion ; as in Secale cereale. 25. Lateral, adhering laterally to the filament; as in Dianthera. 26. Sessile, the filament almost wanting; as in Aristolochia clematitis. 27. Free, not united to any other anther. 28. Connate, united together; as in Viola odorata. ANTHODITJM. A species ofcalyx, which contains many flowers being common to them all. It is distinguished from its structure into, 1. Mvnophijllous, consisting of one leaflet perfect at its base, but cut at its limb or margin ; m in Tragn- pogon. 2. Polyphyllous, consisting of several leaflets; as in Carduus and Centaurea. 3. Simple, consisting of one series of leaflets; as in Cacalia porophyllum. 4. Equal, when all the leaves of the Anthodium simplex are of the same length, as in Ethu, 5. Jmbrecate or squamosc, as in Centauna cyanus. 6. Squarrose, the leaflets bent backward at their extremities. 7. Scabrous, rough, consisting of dry leaflets; as in Centaurea glastifolia and jacea. 8. Spinous, the leaflets having thorns; as in Cynaa scolymus and Centaurea snnt , 9. Turbinate; as in Tarconanthus camphoratus. 10. Globose ; as in Centaurea calcitrapa. 11. Hemispherical, round below and flat above; as in Anthemis and Chrysocoma. 12. Cylindrical, long and round; as with Eupato- rium. 13. Calcyculate, the basts surrounded by another small leafy anthodium; as in Lcontodon taraxacum, Senecio, and Orepis. ANTHOPHYLLITE. A massive mineral, of a brown colour, found at Konigsberg, in Norway. [This substance has been observed only in amor- phous masses, whose longitudinal fracture is foliated, or radiated, and whose cross fracture is uneven. The lustre of the most perfect laminae is somewhat metallic. Its natural joints, of which two are much more perfect than the others, are parallel to the faces of a rectan- gular four-sided prism. It is rather difficult to break, and strongly scratches fluate of lime, but produces little or no effect on glass. It is feebly translucent at the edges, and its colour is brown, tinged with violet. Its powder is whitish, and rough to the touch. Its specific gravity varies from 3.11, to 3.29. Before the blow-pipe it is infusible. It contains silex 62.66, alu- minel3 33, magnesia 4.0, lime 3.33, oxide of iron 12.00, manganese 3.-Jj, water 1.43. It is softer, lighter, and has It*.-lustre, thai. Labrador stone.—GVtuu. Min. A.] 72 J ANTHOPHY'LLUS. (From av0oc, a flower, and (pvWov, a leaf; so called from the Iragance of the flowers and the beauty of the leaves.) The clove is BO lei inecl when it has been suffered to grow to matu- rity.— Bauhin. ANTHOPHY'LLUS. (From avOoc, a flower, and 0iXtta), to love.) A tlorist. A'NTlloRA. (Quasi antilhora. Avridopa ; from am, against, and Sopa, monkshood: so called, because it is said to counteract the effects of the thorn or monkshood.) A species of Wolfsbane. See Aco- nitum anthora. A'nthos florks. The flowers of the rosmarinus are so tinned in some pharmacopoeias. See Rosma- rinus officinalis. A H Til U A'CI A. 1. The name of a genus of diseases in Good's Nosology. See Nosology. 2. A name of the carbuncle. See Anthrax. ANTHRACITE. Blind coal, Kilkenny coal, or glance coal. There are three varieties, conchoidal, slaty, and columnar. [When pulverized and heated, it becomes red, and slowly consumes with a very light lambent flame, without smoke, and when pure emits no sulphureous or bituminous odour; it leaves a variable proportion of reddish ashes. Slaty glance coal consists of car- bon, with from 3 to 30 per cent, of earth and iron. This mineral occurs in imbedded masses, bods, or veins, in primitive, transition, and lloetz rocks. It is found in gneiss, in micaceoucshistus, in mineral veins, with calcareous spar, native silver, mineral pitch, and red iron ore; and has been discovered by Jameson in the independent coal formation in the Isle of Arran.— Phillips'* Min. The coal of Rhode-Island is mingled with quartz, and occasionally with fibrous asbestos ; yet it has but little hydrogen, and less bitumen. It is overlaid by coarse shale, containing numerous and strong impres- sions of ferns. In Pennsylvania there are two great coal formations; one situated S. E. of the mountains, and the other N. XV. The former is the Anthracite or glance coal, ex- tending almost from Delaware along the head waters of the Lehigh and Schuylkill, and to Wilkesbarre od the Susquehannah, and along the Juniata.—MitchiWl Notes to Phil. Mm. This formation of Anthracite has been traced for ninety or a hundred miles in the state of Pennsylvania, and mines have been opened in many places on the blanches of the Susquehannah, Schuylkill, and Dela- ware rivers, and some of them bordering on the states of New-Jersey and New-York. In many places it is near the surface, and appears to be inexhaustible. It ; nsively used as fuel, and its consumption is increasing. A.] Anthraco'sib octjm. A red, livid, burning, sloughy, very painful tumour, occurring on the eyelids.—JEgi- nua. ANTHRAX. (Anthrax, acts. m.; from av6pa\, a burning coal.) Anlhrucia; Anthrocosia; Anthro- cuiiia; Carbunculus; Carbo ; Rubinus versus; Codi- sella; Granatrislum; Pruna; Persicus ignus of Aviccnna. A hard and circumscribed inflammatory like a boil, which sometimes forms on the cheek, neck, or back, and in a few days becomes highly gangrenous, it then discharges an extremely foetid sanies from under the black core, which, like a burning coal, continues destroying the surrounding parts It is supposed to arise from a peculiar miasma, is most common in warm climates, and often attends the plague. ANTHROPOGRA'PHY. (Anthropographia; from oiOmttos, a man, and ypaq)w, to write.) Description of the structure of man. ANTHROPOLOGY. (Anthpopologia; from avOowros, a man, and Aoyoj, a discourse.) The de- scription of man. ANTHYPNOTIC. (Anthypnoticus ; from avji, against, and v-nvoc, sleep.) That which prevents sleep or drowsiness. ANTHYPi ICHONDEI'AC. (Anthypochondnacus ; from av~]i, against, and imoxovipta, the hypochondria.) That which is adapted to cure low-spiritedness or dis- mlria. ANTHYSTFHIC. (Anthystericns; from „v7i, against, and v-coa, the womb.) That which relieve* the hysteric passion$

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