

GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 223 



Neuralgia (from vtvpov, a nerve, and dXyoc, pain), nerve-ache, or pain 



in a nerve. 



Normal, healthy condition. 

 Nephralgia, pain of the kidneys. 



CEdema (from oidtu, to swell), a swelling from the effusion of the 

 serous fluid of the blood into the tissue beneath the skin. 



Pannus hepaticus, liver spots, a jaundiced tint of skin, in spots or 



patches. 

 Pathognomonic, a term applied to symptoms which are characteristic 



of and peculiar to a disease. 

 Prophylactic (from irpo, beforehand, and ^vXao/rw, to guard, caution), 



preservation of health or prevention of disease. 

 Pyaemia, blood-poisoning with pus. 

 Physiology, the science of the different functions of which life is the 



manifestation, or the doctrine of vital phenomena. 

 Pathology, that part of medicine which explains the nature of diseases, 



their causes and symptoms. 



Peri-hepatitis, inflammation of the covering of the liver. 

 Paroxysm (from napo^vvta, to aggravate), an evident increase of 



symptom >. 



Phlebitis (from 0X*^, a vein), inflammation of a vein. 

 Potency, the strength of a medicine. 



Pathology, the science of investigating the nature of diseases. 

 Portal system, a subordinate course of venous circulation, of which the 



liver is the head-quarters. 

 Pilules, small pills, composed of starch and sugar of milk, used as 



vehicles for the administration of homoeopathic medicines. 



Splenalgia, pain in the spleen. 



Symptomatology, the doctrine of symptoms. 



Synonymoi; 



Syphilis, a foul, malignant, and contagious disease. 



Similia similibus curantur, like by likes are cured. 



Therapeutics, that part of medicine which relates to the composition, 

 the application, and the modes of operation of the remedies for 

 disease. 



