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stitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.

Of 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.

That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.

(Med.) Excessive perspiration; also, any skin disease characterized by abnormal perspiration.

An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.

A clownish person; a rustic. Milton. Hobnail liver (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.

The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was…

A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

- also called horn plate. -- Horn of a dilemma. See under Dilemma. -- Horn distemper, a disease of cattle, affecting the internal substance of the horn. -- Horn drum, a wheel with long curved scoops, for raising water. -- Horn lead (Chem.), chloride of lead. -- Horn maker, a maker of cuckolds. [Obs.] Shak. -- Hor…

A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.

The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.

blic or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an…

Affected with the disease called hoove; as, hoven cattle.

s, a humoral fever. Humoral pathology (Med.), the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.

The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism. [Obs.]

eory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism. Dunglison.

One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.

A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism.

The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.

The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow,…