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Dunglison. Galenic pharmacy, that branch of pharmacy which relates to the preparation of medicines by infusion, decoction, etc., as distinguished from those which are chemically prepared.

A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.

or rinse, as the mouth or throat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs.

That part of medicine which treats of regimen for old people.

Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy. Gill ale. (a) Ale flavored with ground ivy. (b) (Bot.) Alehoof.

The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine. Ginger beer or ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger. -- Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. -- Ginger pop. See Ginger beer (above). -- Ginger w…

A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish…

A medicinal preparation made by mixing or dissolving a substance in glycerin.

An emulsion of glycerin and the yolk of eggs, used as an ointment, as a vehicle for medicines, etc.

) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.

or lignum- vitæ, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine. [Written also guaiac.]

lsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus lævis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed oil in the coarser kinds of paint.

y the action of zinc dust as a reducing agent upon the coloring matter of the blood, used medicinally as a hematinic.

ants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally.

A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.

An Asiatic species of Cacalia (C. Kleinia), used medicinally in India.

eats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. Heating surface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- c…

A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called. Loudon.

The practice or theory of using hellebore as a medicine.