A dictionary of the veterinary art : containing all the modern improvements ... : the whole ... forming a work equally useful to the professional veterinarian, the practising farrier, the farmer, and the private gentleman, in obtaining a knowledge of the diseases of horses and other cattle / by Thomas Boardman.

  • Boardman, Thomas.
Date:
1805
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Credit: A dictionary of the veterinary art : containing all the modern improvements ... : the whole ... forming a work equally useful to the professional veterinarian, the practising farrier, the farmer, and the private gentleman, in obtaining a knowledge of the diseases of horses and other cattle / by Thomas Boardman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    z. ZACCHARUM, and according to fome Zuscharinn, was the ancient name of what we now write Saccharum, fugar. ZACINTHA, wart-fuccory, a fpecles of lapaftia. ZAFRAN, or Zaffran, fignilies any thing of a yeliowifli colour, and anciently for that reafon applied chiefly to ochre : but now it ob- tains only in the crocus, which we write com- monly, in Engllfli, fajfron. ^ ZAFFRE-, ore of cobalt, well terrified or calcined, then reduced to powder, and mixed with twice its weight of flints or quartz, alfo powdered, forms the fubftance which is thus named. ZAIN, in the manege, the French appella- tion for a horfe of a dark colour, neither grey nor white, and without any white fpot or mark upon him. ZALACCA, a fpecies of calamus. ZARUTHAN, a hard and unequal tumour of a woman’s bread, attended with pain, not continual, and a burning heat, much like that in a cancer, whence it is called a Jpurious cancer. ZEA, maize, or Indian corn, a genus in Linnaeus’s botany. He enumerates one fpecies. Indian corn is fometimes given to pigs, but more frequently, when ground, to fowls. It is perhaps the mod nutritious grain, except wheat, either as human fudenance, or as provender for brute animals, as Count Rumford has fliewn in his Eflay on Food. ZEDOARY, the root of an Ead-Indian plant. It is the root of the koempferia rotunda Linn. The College have retained it in their Phar- macopoeia j it is directed in the Confedlio Aro- matica. ZEOLITES. It is a particular kind of fluor, which difiblves very flowly in acids, and with- out any effervefcence. Cron dad takes notice of it. It may be called zeolites Jluor, as it belongs to the fluors. ZERNA, an ulcerated impetigo : fome ex- prefs by it lepra. ZERUMBET, broad-leaved wild ginger, a fpecies of amomum. ZfINC, a bluiflt white metal, crackling in be- T H E ingbent, like tin, atid quickly breaking; about feven times fpecifically heavier than water. I'he properties.of this metal have beenvery little known till of late years: its ore, the lapis calaminariSy and white vitriol, in which it is found united with the vitriolic acid, have been long ufed in the (hops. Zinc is diredted in the College Phar- macopoeia to be calcined ; this is called zincttm calcbiatumy or commovAy jlores zinci; it is alfo diredfed to be purified, and is called zincum vi- triolatum purificahpn: a folution of the zincum vitriolatum, is diredted, with the addidon of camphor; this preparation is called aqua zinci vitriolati cum camphora, formerly aqua vitrio- lica camphorata. Zincum vitriolatum alfo en- ters the aqua aluminis compofita; this w as formerly called aqua aluminofa Bateana. ZINC FLOS, a genus in the order of cryp- tometalline flofles. ZINC-STONE, a genus in the order of cryp- tometalline ftones. ZINGIBER, ginger. See Ginger. ZOOLOGY (from animal., and fermo, difeourfe), any treatife upon living crea- tures. The term is moft commonly applied to that part of the materia medic%, vyhich is fup- plied from animals. ZOOTOMY (from animal, an animal, and re^voi,feco, to cut), is the difledtion of living creatures, in anatomy. ZYGOMA, the fame as os mala, or jugale. See Plate V. ZYGOMATIC MUSCLE, a mufcle that comes from the zygoma, and palTing obliquely, is inferted near the angle of the lips. It helps to draw the lips obliquely afide. This, in the horfe, is fliewn in PlateXII. See the defcriptlon of parts in “ the Head, under Horse. ZYGOMATIC PROCESS. Both the for- mer are derived from j“guni, a yoke. See Maxilla Superior, and Cranium ; alfo Plate V. and the defeription under Bones. ZZ. The ancients fignified myrrh by thefe two letters, from Kf^v^vrj, a name for it common amongft them; but later w'riters ufed them only for zinziber, ginger. END. Pf.itcd by Thomas Davison, White-friars.