Volume 2

The London medical dictionary; including under distinct heads every branch of medicine ... with whatever relates to medicine in natural philosophy, chemistry, and natural history / By Bartholomew Parr.

  • Parr, Bartholomew, 1750-1810
Date:
1809
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Credit: The London medical dictionary; including under distinct heads every branch of medicine ... with whatever relates to medicine in natural philosophy, chemistry, and natural history / By Bartholomew Parr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Z K D Z. See Myurwa and ZiNziBER, ZA'ARA- See Peuvigilum, Somnl's, and Vi- CIEAN'llA. ZACI'NTHA. Cic/ioratm, xerrucarvm, hipsam za- ciiitha Lin. Sp. PI. 1 1,4! ; WART SUCCORY, grows in Itah’; and is noted tor it.s power of destroying warts. ZA'FFARAN, (from za/raii of Z'di'ai, pcllow). See Crocus. ZA'FFER. See Cobai.tum. Z.VGU. Sec Palma Japonica. ZAIL. See Borozail. # ZANTHO'XYLON, 7/el/ou', and ^u\civ, lig- num). Prickly yellow wood, or yellow Her- cules. Zunthoxyhnn dava her cults lAa. V\. 1455. The powder from the bark of the root of the tree is re- commended as an useful antiseptic in ill-conditioned ulcers. Chamberlain in the INIeraoirs of the Medical Society, v. 10. Z.A'LAPA. See Jalap. ZARZAPARI'LLA. See Sarsaparilla. ZARNICH. See Arsenicum ALBUM. ZA'RUTHAN. See Cancer. ZAZARME'NDl HE'RBA. See Origanum. ZE'A, (?aa;, to live; from the nourishment it affords). See A DOR. ZEDOA'RIA, (vox sinensis); gedwar, malankua, col- chicum Zeylanicum, hatonkuha, arnubo,zedoary, Kawpfe- ria rotunda Lin. Sp PI. 3. It is brought chiefly from Bengal, in oblong pieces, about the thickness of a little finger, and two or three inches long; or in roundish ones, called zerumbeth, about an inch in diameter, of an ash colour on the outside, and white within. The long and the round are the roots of the same plant, the body of which is round, and the protuberances long. The best is dense, solid, of a fine taste and smell, bitterish, moderately acrid, emitting an aromatic flavour in powdering or chewing, neither wrinkled nor per- forated. It impregnates water with its smell and a light bit- terish taste. Ihe spirituous tincture is weaker in smell than the watery, but stronger to the taste: distilled with water, it yields a ponderous, hot, and pungent essential oil. This root is a warm stomachic j and its spirituous ex- tract is the best preparation. In colics, attended with a diarrhoea and pain in the intestines, 3i. of the powder, taken three times a day, often relieves. In flatulences it is very useful if joined with opium; and in general the dose is from gr. v. to jss. Notwithstanding the extravagant commendations of Cartheuser, who consi- ders it as a general remedy for the greater number of chronic complaints, Cullen allows it only the virtue it may possess as containing camphire. It has, however, still a place in the confectio aromatica of the London Piiarmacdpceia. See Cullen’s and Lewis’s Materia Me- dina. ZE'RNA. An ulcerated impetigo, sometimes syno- nymous with lepra. See Lichen. ZE'RTA. See Capito Andromachus. ZERLJ'MBEPH. (See Zedoaria.). A species of ginger also, amomuni zerumbet Lin. Sp. PI. l; broad- leaved wild GINGER. ZI'BACH. Quicksilver. See Argent, vi- VUM. ZIBE'THUM, (from the Arabic zobeth). Civet, civeta algatia, is an unctuous odoriferous substance nearly of the consistence of honey or butter, of a whitish, yellowish, brownish, or blackish colour, brought from the Brazils, the coast of Guinea, and the East-Indies. It is a secreted fluid preserved in its peculiar follicle, in the lower part of'the belly of the viverra zibctha of Lin- naeus. Its smell is fragrant, and disagreeably strong, un- less diluted. It hath an unctuous and subacrid taste, not dissolving in spirit or water, but uniting with oils both expressed and distilled, and with animal fats. Water by distillation is impregnated with its odour, and spirit by digestion. Rubbed with mucilage it mixes with water. The black civet from India i.s not so good as that from America; but the latter is often adulterated. The chief use of this drug is as a perfume; it is rarely, if ever, employed for any medicinal purposes. See Neu- mann’s Chemistry ; Lewis’s Materia Medica. ZI’MENT. See C(i;MENTUM cupreum. ZTNCUM, (from zink. Germ.) tutenag, spel- ter, BLENDE, blackjack, and zinc, is a .semi- metal, of a bluish white colour, of a high metallic lustre, somewhat brighter than lead, of considerable hardness, and so malleable as not to be broken with the hammer, though it cannot be much extended. Its structure is foliated with sharp points) which renders it harsh to the touch.