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to the organ by the hepatic artery, — see HiSpatique, — would seem to be 

 more than sufficient for the mere purposes of its nutrition." 



"Glutei, s. m., — n. L., and E., — xoXXa, — kleber, n. G. : an immediate 

 principle of vegetables, the peculiar substance which remains after the farina 

 of wheat has been exhausted of its starch; so named, on account of its gluti- 

 nous properties. Taddei regards it as composed of two distinct principles, — 

 one soluble in alcohol, — seeGLiADiNE; the other insoluble, — see Zimome : 

 and indicates it as an antidote to the poisonous effects of Oxymuriate of 

 Quicksilver ; alike preferable, from its chemical and physical operation, to 

 the albumen proposed by Orfila. Four scruples of an " emulsive powder of 

 gluten" are sufficient to neutralize twelve grains of the deuto-chloride. He, 

 also, eulogizes a compound glutinous mercurial preparation as the best ajiti- 

 syphil'itic : for the sublimate, although thus reduced to the condition of a pro- 

 to-chloride, still retains so much of the properties of the deuto-chloride, as 

 rarely to induce salivation or diarrhoea." 



*'Faisan, s. m. : a genus, in Oxn\\.ho\ogy, Phasianus (Gallinacees^C\XY.\ 

 Gallinee, Linn.), L.., — der Fasan, G., — Pheasant ; containing several species. 

 Of these, the common pheasant, — Ph. colchicus, — \eJais.vulgaire,V., — (puffioi.- 

 vos, — der gemeine/asa/j, G.,— and the domestic fowl, — Ph. gallus, — le coq^ — (o 

 uXiKTu^t KBc) h ccXfiTo^t;, — cock and hen), — der haushahn, — of Indian origin, 

 and comprehending numerous varieties, are the principal. The Jlesh of both 

 species affords a grateful and highly nutritious aliment. The j^oung, especi- 

 ally in a state of domestication, are subject to a destructive malady, termed 

 Gapes, resulting from the irritation of an entozoary animal, — Fasciola trachea^ 

 Montagu, — Disfoma trachea, Rudolphi : which, attaching itself to the mem- 

 brane of the windpipe, induces suffocation. Tobacco-fumigations are said to 

 be its specific remedy. See Montagu, Ornithological Dictionary^ Supplement, 

 Art. Pheasant; or Rennie's Edition, p. 370. The assumption of the male 

 plumage and the spur by the hen-birds of these species, on cessation of the 

 generative functions, constitutes an interesting and curious physiological 

 Kict ; to H hich a parallel may be observed in the beard developed on the 

 chin of the human female, in' the decline of life. See the Wernerian Tran- 

 sactions, V. iii., p. 183. The Pheasant derives its designations, generic and 

 specific, from Phasis, a river of Colchis, the modern Mingrelia : whence this 

 valuable bird was first brought into Europe, by the Argonauts, on their re- 

 turn from the celebrated expedition into Asia." 



" GiNSEN, ou Ginseng, s. m.; in Botany and Materia Medica, the sup- 

 posed root of a plant, Panax quinquefoUum, ( Polyandria, monoec. ; Araliacece), 

 JL. ; — which grows in Chinese Tartary, Japan, and has since been discovered 

 in Canada. The term, Gen-seng, literally signifying, first of plants, appears, 

 however, to have been indiscrimately applied, in China, to the roots of spe- 

 cies of several other genera, in addition to those of Panax. See Dictionnaire 

 Universel de Matiere Medicale, v. iii., Art. Gen-seng. The root of P. quinque- 

 JoUvm is moderately stimulant and tonic ; but has not sustained, in European 

 practice, the extravagant reputation, as an aphrodisiac, and panacea, conferred 

 upon it, in numerous monographs, by the Chinese physicians : and has, at 

 length, fallen into merited neglect." 



"Graphite, s. m., — graphites, m. {y^a.(pa, to write), Ij., — graphit, m., 

 reissblei, n. G. : in Mineralogy, the designation of the per-carburct of iron, 

 employed in the manufacture of the " black-lead pencil." Plumbago is medi- 

 cinallg used, on the continent, both as an internal and topical remedy, in cu- 

 taneous diseases. " Der Graphit, ein art kohlensaures eisen, bewahrt sich 

 als ein vorziigliches mittel in hautkrankheiten.^^ Otto, Reise durch die 

 Schweiz, etc., p. 69." 



" Homme, s. m., — homo, m. L., — oivS^wros, — mensch, m. G., — man : in Zoo- 

 logy, the sole genus belonging to the Order Bimanus, in the Class Mammifera, 

 of Vertebrated Animals ; and the only real biped of that Class. Man alone, 

 gifled with the power of language, is capable of communicating his ideas and 

 emotions by conventional sounds and signs. His brain is much more com- 

 plicated, and more fully developed in its anterior portion, than that of other 



