EXPLANATION OF THE 
ABBREVIATIONS OF MEDICAL PROPERTIES 
Used in the Paragraphs. 
ABORTIVE, 
ACIDULOUS, 
ACRID, 
ADENAGIC, 
ALEXIPHARMIC, 
ALTERATIVE, 
ANODYNE, 
ANTHELMINTIC, 
APERIENT, 
APHRODISIAC, 
ARoMATIC, 
ASTRINGENT, 
ANTI-APHRODISIAC, 
ANTI-BILIOUS, 
ANTI-EMETIC, 
ANTI-EPILEPTIC, 
ANTI-HYSTERIC, 
ANTHILITIC, 
ANTI-PERIODIC, 
ANTI-PHLOGISTIC, 
ANTI-RHEUMATIC, 
ANTI-SCORBUTIC, 
ANTI-SEPTIC, 
ANTI-SPASMODIC, 
ANTI-SYPHILITIC, 
ANTI-VENOMOUS, 
BALSAMIC, 
BITTER, 
CARMINATIVE, 
CaTHARTIC, 
Caustic, 
CEPHALIC, 
CHOLAGOGUE, 
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- ConDIMENT, 
CorpiaL, 
CosMETIC, 
CouUNTER-IRRITANT, 
DEMULCENT, 
DEOBSTRUENT, 
DEPURATIVE, 
DkssICATIVE, 
DETERGENT, 
DIAPHORETIC, 
DiscuTIENT, 
Diuretic, 
DepiLaAToRY, 
DETERSIVE, 
Drastic, 
Emeric, 
EMMENAGOGUE, 
EMOLLIENT, 
EScULENT, 
EscHAROTIC, 
EXANTHEMATOUS, 
{ A medicine which claims the property 
of causing abortion. 4 
i Substances which possess a sourish 
taste. 
Hot, biting, irritating. 
Relieving or arresting glandular pain. 
{ Preventing the bad effects of poisons 
inwardly. 
Producing a salutary change without 
} perceptible evacuation. 
Relieving pain, or causing it to cease. 
remedy which expels worms. 
Gently laxative, without purging. 
{ Medicine believed capable of exciting 
the venereal appetite. 
Odoriferous, stimulant, spicy. . 
{ Having the property of constringing 
the organic texture. i: 
; A substance capable of blunting the 
venereal appetite. : 
{ ——- d to biliousness ; acting on the 
ile. 
A remedy for vomiting. : 
Opposed to epilepsy; relieving fits. 
A remedy for hysteria. «ci 
HE yh the formation of calculi in 
the urinary organs. 
Arresting morbid periodical movements 
Opposed to inflammation. 
Relieving or curing r eumatism. 
Curing or preventing scurvy. 
Opposed to putrefaction. 
Relieving or preventing spasm. 
Opposed to or curing venereal diseases. 
Used against bites of insects, snakes, etc. 
Healing or soothing to inflamed paris. 
Having a tonic effect. 
Expelling wind from the bowels. [els. 
Inc ing ev: tions from the bow- 
{ The property of burning or disorgan- 
izing animal substance. 
Relating to diseases of the head. 
Increasing the flow of bile. 
bee iit the savor of food, as salt, 
pepper, salad, etc. 
A warm stomachic; exciting the heart. 
Used for improving the complexion. 
{ Causing irritation in one part to relieve 
pain in arother part. 
Soothing, mucilaginous, relieving in- 
flammation. 
} Removing obstructions; aperient in a 
} general sense. 
Purifying the blood. [ulcers 
Drying the moisture of wounds and 
Cleansing to wounds, boils or ulcers. 
Producing insensible perspiration. 
Dispelling or resolving tumors. [urine. 
Increasing the secretion and flow of 
Removing superfluous hair, 
Detergent. 
Powerfully cathartic. 3 
Producing or causing vomiting. 
Promoting menstruation. 
Softening to inflamed parts ; soothing. 
Eatable as food. 
A substance which, applied to a living 
part, causes an eschar. 
Relating to eruption or skin diseases. 
