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Blunt-hook (plunk' -hook) . An obstetric instrument, 

 used mainly in embryotomy. 



Blunzen (blunz'-en) [Ger.]. A peculiar Wiirtemberg 

 sausage, made by filling the stomachs of hogs with 

 meat, and cured by a method favoring putrefaction. 

 This is the most common source of sausage-poisoning. 

 See Allantiasis and Botulismus. 



Blushing [blush'-ing) [ME., blttshen, to glow]. The 

 reddening of the face through shame, modesty, or 

 confusion. See Rubor. 



Boa [bo' -ah) [L.]. An ancient name applied to various 

 eruptions and eruptive diseases, as measles, smallpox, 

 hydroa, syphilis. B. Vista Fever. See Fever. 



Boas's Test. See Tests, Table of. 



Boat-belly (bot'-bel-e). See Scaphoid Abdomen. 



Bobb's Operation. See Operations, Table of. 



Bochdalek's Ganglion. See Ganglia, Table of. B's 

 Pseudo-ganglion. See Pseudo-ganglion. 



Bock, Nerve of. See Nerves, Table of. 



Bockhart's Blood-serum Mercury. A mercurial used 

 in the treatment of syphilis. It is prepared as follows 

 from the blood of sheep, horses, or oxen : io^ drams 

 of blood-serum, sterilized after Koch's method, are 

 placed in a graduated glass, and then mixed with a 

 solution of 45 grains of bichlorid of mercury dis- 

 solved in one ounce of boiling distilled water. The 

 precipitate formed is redissolved by the addition of 105 

 grains of chlorid of sodium, dissolved in five drams 

 of distilled water. This compound is then a three per 

 cent, solution of blood-serum mercury. By adding 

 enough distilled water to make six ounces five drams, 

 we have the solution generally used, containing one 

 and one-half per cent of the mercurial salt. Injections 

 of 15 minims (containing one-quarter grain of subli- 

 mate, combined with albumin) are made daily. 



Bodo (bo / -do) [L.]. A genus of flagellate protozoans. 

 B. saltans has been reported as living in great num- 

 bers in unhealthy ulcerations. B. urinarius has 

 been found in the urine of cholera-patients. 



Body (bod'-e) [AS., bodig]. I. The animal frame with 

 its,organs. Also a cadaver or corpse. 2. This term 

 is applied by the manufacturer of porcelain teeth to the 

 parts composing the principal portion of the artificial 

 organ. 3. The tube of a microscope, including the 

 draw-tube ; it is the tube receiving the ocular at one end 

 and the objective at the other. See also Corpus, and 

 Corpora. B. Cells. See Heredi'y. B. Louse. See 

 Pediculus. B. -plasm. See Somatoplasm , under Here- 

 dity. B., Sub-thalamic. See Luys, Body of. 



Boeckel's Operations. See Operations, Table of. 



Boerhaave, Glands of. See Gland. 



Bog (bog) [E. dial.]. To ease the body by stool. 



Bog (bog) [Gael., bogan, a bog]. Ground that is wet 

 and spongy. B.-bean. See Buckbean. B. -spavin. 

 See Spavin. 



Bogue's Operation. See Operations, Table of. 



Bohm's Acid Carmin. See Stains, Table of. B.'s 

 Operation. See Operations, Table of. 



Bohmer's Hematoxylin Solution. See Stains, 

 Table of. 



Bohun Upas (bo / -hun-u / -pas). See Antiar and Upas. 



Boil boil\ [ME., boile\ A furuncle ; a localized inflam- 

 mation of the skin and subcutaneous connective tissue 

 attended by the formation of pus. See Furunculus. 

 B., Aleppo or B., Delhi, a peculiar ulcerative affection 

 endemic in India, due to a specific and pathogenic mi- 

 crobe. It has been proposed by Heydenreich to call 

 this Tropical Boil. Other names are Penjdeh Boil and 

 Bouton Biskra. B. -plague. Synonym of Anthrax. 



Boiled Oil. Linseed oil that has been heated to a 

 high temperature (130 C. and upward), while a 

 current of air is passed through or over the oil, and 



the temperature increased until the oil begins to 

 effervesce from evolution of products of decomposi- 

 tion. B.-sago Matter. Vitreous-looking. bodies fre- 

 quently seen in the stools of dysentery. They are 

 simply granules of starch ingested as food and remain- 

 ing partially or wholly undigested. They are also 

 called Frogs' -sp^rum matter. 



Boiler-makers' Deafness. See Deafness. 



Boiling (boil'-ing) [ME., boilen, to stir]. The vapori- 

 zation of a liquid when it gives off vapor having the 

 same tension as the surrounding air. Most tissues, 

 animal and vegetable, are softened and rendered more 

 or less soluble by boiling. Albumin and most albu- 

 minoids, however, are rendered insoluble. The tem- 

 perature of boiling water at the level of the sea is 

 212° F. (100 C.) ; it decreases with increasing alti- 

 tude. B. Test. See Tests, Table of. 



Boissons (bwah> -song) [Fr.]. Cheap fermented liquors 

 made from raisins or other dried fruits to which sweet- 

 ened water is added and fermentation allowed. 



Bola (bo / -lah). See Myrrh. 



Bolary (bo'-lar-e) [bolus, clay] . Of the nature of bole. 



Bolax (bcZ-laks). See Balsam-bog. B. Gum. See 

 Balsam-bog. 



Bolbomelanoma (bol-bo-mel-an-o f -mah) [/3o/./3(5c, a 

 bulb ; fie/jivuua, blackness]. Melanotic carcinoma of 

 the eyeball. 



Boldin (bol'-din). See Boldus. 



Boldo (bol'-do). See Boldus. B.-glucine, an aro- 

 matic glucosid obtained from Peumtis boldus and other 

 species. It is a hvpnotic in doses of gr. xx-^j. 

 Unof. 



Boldoa (bol'-do-ah) [Chilian, Boldii\. A genus of 

 monimiaceous trees. B. fragrans, the tree Pettmus 

 boldus. See Boldus. 



Boldus (bol'-dus) [L.]. Boldo. The leaves and stems 

 of an evergreen, Peumus boldus, native to Chili 

 and vicinity, sometimes used in anemia and general 

 debility as a substitute for quinin. It contains a 

 bitter alkaloid, Boldin, an hypnotic in doses of gr. iij. 

 B., Ext., Fid. Dose n\j-iv. B., Tinct., contains 

 20 per cent, of the drug. Dose mjr-viij. 



Bole (bol) [3u/.oc, a clod of earth]. I. A translucent, 

 soft variety of clay formerly much used in medicine, 

 internally as an astringent, externally as an absorbent. 

 Dose gr. v-x. Several varieties are used, as the 

 Armenian bole ; the Lemnian, and the French bole. 

 2. A bolus. See Bolus. 



Boletus (bo-le / -tus) [Su/.tryg, a kind of mushroom]. 

 A genus of fungi, some species of which are edible, 

 while others are highly poisonous. None is official. 



Bologna (bo-lon'-yah) [It ]. A city of northern Italy. 

 B. Lime. Same as Vienna White. B. Phosphorus, 

 a sulphid of barium, having the property of emitting 

 a pale, feeble light in the dark. 



Bolus (by-lus) [L. ://., Boli ; Eng. pi., Boluses]. I. 

 A mass of medicine exhibited in the form of a large 

 pill. 2. A mass of masticated food ready to swallow. 



Bombardier Beetle. See Brachenin. 



Bombax ( bom'-baks) [bombyx, cotton]. A genus of 

 huge tropical malvaceous trees of many species. 

 Some of these trees afford demulcent diuretic medi- 

 cines. Mocmain, q. v., is a product of B. malabaricum. 



Bombus (bom' -bus) [36fi3oc, a humming sound]. A 

 ringing or buzzing sound in the ears ; tinnitus. Also 

 a sonorous movement or rumbling flatus of the 

 intestines: borborygmus. 



Bona Fever (bo'-nah fe'-ver). See Fever. 



Bonbon (bon'-bon) [Fr.]. A confection. B., Pectoral, 

 a medicated antibechic confection. 



Bond's Operation. See Operations. Table of. 



Bonduc Seeds (bon'-duk sedz). See Bonducella. 



