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A medicine designed to improve the condition of the blood.

A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.

Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (.

One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.

f or pertaining to the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine on the principles of the hermetic philosophy, and which made much use, as a remedy, of an alkali and an acid; as, hermetic medicine.

A medicine that causes perspiration; a diaphoretic or a sudorific.

A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark. Dunglison.

A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

ates to his disciples. Such an oath is still administered to candidates for graduation in medicine.

The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates.

The science of veterinary medicine; the pathology of the horse.

A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech.

A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.

vy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. Gray. Horse-radish tree. (Bot.) See Moringa.

A diluent drink or medicine. [Obs.]

A hydragogue medicine, usually a cathartic or diuretic.

A hydrotic medicine.

fensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.

Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin. Hypodermic medication, the application of remedies under the epidermis, usually by means of a small syringe, called the hypodermic syringe. -- Hyp`o*der"mic*al*ly, adv.

Materia Medica; that branch of therapeutics which treats of remedies.