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A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.

A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.

A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.

Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.

rring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

obably a native of northern India, and is now understood to be the typical form of Citrus Medica.

A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.

struction, instruction by means of clinics. -- Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrared by the exhibition and examination of living patients. -- Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.…

es. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.

Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals. Code civil or Code Napoleon, a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, e…

A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose roostock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actæa, plants of the Crowfoot family.

nata, which is nearly as large as a chestnut, and furnishes a stimulant, which is used in medicine.

A medicated wash for the mouth.

The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.

perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine. Butterbur coltsfoot (Bot.), a European plant (Petasites vulgaris).

n, an organization formed by the people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the medical department of the Union armies during the Civil War.

To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine. Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort. Sir W. Scott.

One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.

A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.