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te of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.

t are dotted with oil dlands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.

puscles have so settled out that the coagulum appears nearly colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual. Huxley.

A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.

A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.

Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth.

ive distillation of the inner wood of the cade. It is used as a local application in skin diseases.

to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.

A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.

The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.

A disease of horses, on which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat.

atment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury. A proper remedy in hypochondriacal cases. Arbuthnot.

g the lead to the botton. -- To cast the water (Med.), to examine the urine for signs of disease. [Obs.]. -- To cast up. (a) To throw up; to raise. (b) To compute; to reckon, as the cost. (c) To vomit. (d) To twit with; to throw in one's teeth.

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

pinal meningitis, Cerebro-spinal fever (Med.), a dangerous epidemic, and endemic, febrile disease, characterized by inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous…

ing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.

A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.

sp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.