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`DICTIO·NARY
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`OF
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`PH.ARMACEUT·ICAL SCIENCE.
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`A GUIDE FOR THE
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`PHARMACEUTIST, DRUGGIST, AND PHYSICIAN.
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`CONTAINING
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`CONCISE EXPLANATIONS OF THE VARIOUS SUBJECTS AND TERMS
`OF PHARMACY, AND APPROPRIATE SE.LECTIONS OF
`THE COLLATERAL SCIENCES,
`FORMULiE FOR OFFICINAL, E~IPIRICAL, AND DIETETIC PREPARATIONS; SELECTIONS FROM THE PRE•
`SCRIPTIONS OF THE MOST EMINENT PHYSICIANS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA; AN ALPHABET(cid:173)
`ICAL LIST OF DISEASES AND THEIR DEFINITIONS; AN ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS
`MODES IN USE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF DEAD BODIES, FOR INTER~IENT OR
`DISSECTION; TABLES OF SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS, WEIGHTS AND
`MBASURES, DOSES, ANTIDOTES TO POISONS, ETC., ETC., AND
`AS AN lTBM OF CURIOSITY, A FEW LEAVES FROl\1
`A DISPENSATCIRY PUBLISHED IN THE
`SEVENTEENTH CENTURY,
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`BY
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`H. V. SWERINGEN, M.D.,
`Proftssor o/ Jltfateri'a Medica and Tkerapeuti~:s iJtledical College o/ Fori Wayne, l11dia1ta:
`JrlemlJer of tfee America11 Pkarma~:eutical Assol:iatlon.
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`P. BLAKISTON, S<;}-;N & CO.,:·
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`I tion whether there are any such medicines.
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`the natives for weights, and also for orna-j does neither harm nor good. It is a ques(cid:173)
`ments, being of a beautiful red color.
`ADAPTER. A glass tube, open at AD INDEFINITU~I. To any indefi-
`both ends, placed between ·a retort and a nite extent.
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`receiver, to give more space to elastic AD INFINITUM. To endless extent.
`vapors.
`AD INTERBI. In the menntime.
`ADARCE. A saltish concretion on
`ADIPOCERE. A soft unctuous or
`reeds and grass in marshy grounds in
`waxy substance, of n light brown color,
`Galatia. It is lax and porous, like bas(cid:173)
`into which the musculnr fibres of clead
`tard sponge, and used to clear the skin
`animal bodies are converted by long im(cid:173)
`in leprosy, tetters, &c.
`mersion in water or spirit, or hy burial in
`moist places under peculin r ci reumstnnces.
`ADCORPORATE. To unite one body
`with another.
`This substance was discovered by Four(cid:173)
`ADDENDUM. A thing or things to
`croy in the burying-ground uf the church
`be added.
`Des Innocons, when it was removed in
`ADEPS. Animal fat; lard.
`1787.
`ADEl'S PuJEPARATUS. (A:cungia.) The
`ADJUTAGE. A tube through which
`purified fat of tl1e hog.
`~he wnter of a fountuin is dischnrgecl.
`ADDER'S-GRASS. A plant about
`ADJUVANT. A su bstancu udded to
`which serpents lurk.
`a prescription to nid thr. operution of the
`Anmm's-TONGUE. A genus of ferns
`princip11.l ingredient or b1tsis.
`whose seeds are produced on a spike re(cid:173)
`AD LIBITUM. At plensnre; without
`sembling a serpentls tongue.
`restriction.
`AnDim's-woRT. Snakeweed; so called
`ADlVIIXTION. A mingling of bodies;
`from its supposed virtue in curing ·the
`a union by mixing different substances
`bite of s<•rpents.
`together. It differs from composition or
`chemicnl combinntion i for ac1mixtion does
`ADENOS. A species of cotton from
`Aleppo, called also, marine cotton.
`not alter the nature of the substances
`mixed, but merely blends them together i
`AD FINE.i\f. To the end.
`whereas in composition the particles unite
`ADHESIVE. Apt or tending to ad(cid:173)
`here.
`by affinitr, lose their former pr·operties,
`and form new compounds with different
`ADHESIVE PLASTER. See Emplu.st1•um
`properties.
`Adlu:e.sivwn.
`ADMIXTURE. A substance mixed
`ADIANTUM CAPILLUS VENE-
`RIS. A European species of maidenhair, with another; sometimes the net of mix(cid:173)
`or Adiantum pcdn.tum.
`ture or the state of being mixed. We
`ADIANTUM ExcrsuM. A fern used as say the admixture of tannin and alum, or
`an emmenagogue and a pectoral in Chili. the admixture of different bodies.
`The whole plant is employed, generally ADOSCULATION. The impregna(cid:173)
`mixecl with honey. By the name of Ou-
`tion of plants by the fnlling of the f1\rinn
`lani1·illo a number of species of Adiantum on the pistil. The insertion of one part
`are used in Ohilian pharmacy.
`of a plant into another.
`ADIANTUM PEDATUM.
`(llfaidenhai1·.) ADULARIA. A term applied to the
`A fern, the leaves of which are bitter nnd semi-transparent varieties of albite and
`aromatic. Said to be useful in chronic felspnr. Its color is white, or with a tinge
`catarrh. The name of maidenhair has of green, yellow, or red.
`also been given to Asplenium t·ricomanes, ADULTERATED OPIU)f. Dr. C.
`of wl1ich there is another species, called Finckle has met with the following lldul(cid:173)
`A.9plen·iumadiantumnio7'ttm or black spleen-
`terations of opium : ~facedonian with clny,
`wort.
`ADIAPHOROUS. A medicine that cherry gum, Taushanly with extract of
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`I Anoora with pieces of wax, Amasia with
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`Par Pharm., Inc.
`Exhibit 1013
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