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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.

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

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.

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

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

not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron.

To steep in water or other fluid without boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak. One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water. Coxe.

An apparatus for inhaling any vapor or volatile substance, as ether or chloroform, for medicinal purposes.

To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.

throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.

ction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed.

b (Cephaëlis Ipecacuanha), largely employed as an emetic; also, the plant itself; also, a medicinal extract of the root. Many other plants are used as a substitutes; among them are the black or Peruvian ipecac (Psychotria emetica), the white ipecac (Ionidium Ipecacuanha), the bastard or wild ipecac (Asclepias Curassavi…

bark, Peruvian bark, or the bark of certain species of Cinchona; -- so called because its medicinal properties were first made known in Europe by Jesuit missionaries to South America. -- Jesuits' drops. See Friar's balsam, under Friar. -- Jesuits' nut, the European water chestnut. -- Jesuits' powder, powdered cincho…

tter contained in the juice of the green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia). It is used medicinally as an alterative, and also as a black hair dye.

ing to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.

The inspissated juice of licorice root, used as a confection and medicinal purposes. Licorice fern (Bot.), a name of several kinds of polypody which have rootstocks of a sweetish flavor. -- Licorice sugar. (Chem.) See Glycyrrhizin. -- Licorice weed (Bot.), the tropical plant Scapania aulcis. -- Mountain licorice (Bo…

Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.