A compendious medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, physiology, surgery, materia medica, chemistry, and practice of physic / collected from the most approved authors, by R. Hooper ... with corrections and additions.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
Date:
1809
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    a m y J9 plant which affords this drug. It is imported here from Turkey, and lrom ihe East Indies. Internally, ammoniacuni is given in asthmas, and difficulty ol expectoration. In large doses it proves purgative. Externally, mide into a pia-ter hm.Ii acetum scillae, n produces pustles, filled with tenacious pus, and is a powerful resolvent'.—ifom 9ss to d i. AMNESIA. Amnestia. Forgetfalness ; from a, priv. and pvwri-, memory. AMNIOS. The innermost membrane of the membranace- ous ovum of the faetus ; from auviov, a vessel which the ancients used inr the reception of blood in sacrifices. AMPIIEMETJXOS. Ampheroerina. A quotidian fever; from Ufjt^i, abi.ui, and -ny.i^a a day. AMPUL VIUTIROSIS. A species of connection of bono, which admits of an obscure motion, as is observed in the met- acarpal and metatarsal bones ; trom a/xs?;, and a-dguni, au articulation. AMPHIBLESTOIDES. The retina ; from af*$6\n<rrpnr, a net, and siJo;, a resemblance. See Retina. AMYGDALA. Almonds. The kernels of the fruit of the almond-tree, dmygdtitus communis ot Litmsus, a native of Barbary. Ihe same tree produces eitlier hitter or iweet al- monds. Sweet, almonds aie more in use as food tha'i medicine. They afford on expression, a great proportion ot oil, which, from In-:,,j more agreeable to the palate than the oilier oils, is pre- ferred tor internal u-e, to soften and relax the solids, in tickling coughs, hoarseness, costiveness, nephritic pains, &c. External- ly it is used in tensions and rigidities of particular parts. An emulsion of sweet almonds possesses the emollient qualities ot the oil. AMYLUM. Starch ; from a, priv. and/cu>X», a mill ; be- cauv it w;ts formerly made from wheat without the assistance ot a noII. The white substance which subsides from the water, that i^ mixed with wheaten flour. The staichmakers suffer it to remain in the water lor a time, alter it has become acid, which makes it very white, and soft to the touch, and scarcely sensible to the tase. As starch forms the greatest part of hour, i>. cannot ue doubted but thai it is the principal alimentary