I N D I N D 



will be prefumed to be in the prifoner, lie Tiaving pleaded 8j* 30', and from N. lat. 10' to 27' ^o'; Cuba being made 



not guilty. An indidment being at the king's fuit, the the weiierly boundary, and the Bahamas the raoft northerly ; 



prorccutoris a goed vvitnefs to prove the charge contained in and fixing the eufterly point at the ifiand of Barbadoes, and 



it ; and no damage can be given to the parly aggrieved, ex- the foutlierly at Trinidad. Tlie name was given by Co- 



ccpt it be particularly grounded on fomc Uatute. IndiA- lumbus, and has not been unfrcquently applied to the whole 



inont? before juHices of the peace may be removed by cer- of America. See each illand feparatc'y defcribed. 



tiorari into the king's bench. ' INDIGENOUS, of indigena, denotes a native of a coun. 



A bill of indiftment is faid to be an accufation, bccaufe try ; or that which was originally born or produced in the 



the jury, who inquire of the offence, do not receive it till the country where it is found. In this fcnfe, particular fpecies 



party that offered the bill, appearing, fubfcribes liis name, of aniuials and plants are faid to be indigenous in the country 



and offers his oath for the truth of it. where they are native, in oppofition to exotic. 



It is always at the fuit of the king, and differs from an INDIGESTION, in Medkine, in the acceptation in 



accufation in this, that the preferrer is no way tied to the which we employ the term, implies not only the iniperfeft 



proof thereof upon any penalty if it be not proved, except performance of the act of digellion, but alfo an impaired 



there appears a confpiracy. But if any one prefer an iiididt- condition of the funftions of the llomach and chylopoetic 



inent to the grand jury for any criminal offence, witliout vifcera in general. 



probable caufe, and the bill is not found, or the party is ac- In ufmg the term indigejlion in this extenfive fenfe, we follow 



quitted, aftion Hes for a mahcious profecution. In order to the example of Dr. CuUen, who has comprehended, under the 



which it is neeeffary tliat the plaintiff {hould obtain a copy head of Dyfp pfui (from ii;, ill, and s-sxTSiv, todi^cjl), a great 



of the record of his indidlmcnt and acquittal ; but in prole- variety of iVmptoras, which other nofologifts have confi- 



•cutionsforfelony, itisufualto deny acopyoftheindiftnent, dered as dillintt difeafes, and defcribed under various ap- 



wherc 'here is any the lead probable caufe to found fuch pellations, but which, he is of opinion, are all referrible to 



profecution upon. But an attion for a malicious profccu- one common caufe, an imbecility, or lofs of tone in the 



tion mav be founded on fuch an indiftment whereon no ftomach. (See Cullen, Nofol. Method. Gen. xlv. and Firii 



acquittal can be ; as if it be rejctled by the grand jury, or Lines, § iigo, and ligj). Among thcfymptoms jull 



he coram noil jtid'ice, or be infufficiently drawn. alluded to, which ftnnd as dillindt genera in other nofoJo- 



IxDlCTMENTS, Demurrer to. See DE>runnER. gical fyftems, are /Inorevla, ov lojs of appetite ; Cardialgia. 



INDICTOR, m Law, he that indifteth another for an or heart-burn ; Gajlrodymn, or Jl ,mach colic; Flalulentia, or 



offence: ^nd W/^c? is the party who is inditled. I Y.ii.\\\. flatuler.ct ; Naufca i Vomilus, Sodii, &c. (See the Nofol. 



cap. 1 1. 21 .Tac. I. cap. 8. Syllems of Sauva^es, Ve.gel, and Linnajus.) To the fame 



INDICUM. In the writings of the ancients we find difordered condition of the digeftive organs, when it is 



tliis word very frequently ufed, as the name of a blue colour, fympathetic of, or combined with other complaints, Dr. 



or pigment ufed in dyeing, and imported to Rome, Greece, CuUen likewife referred m.any of thofe undefined affeftions, 



and other parts of the world, from the Ealt Indies. The which have been confufedly claffed together under the gc- 



greater number of writers make this the fame with our neral title of nervous difeafes, or under that of chronic tucak- 



•indigo, or anil fecu'je ; and fome fay it was the fame nefs. From the great importance of the llomach in the 



with our woad ; but the former opinion feems moft pro- animal economy, in which it is, as it were, the laboratory 



■table. of health, and from its fympathetic relation to every other 



This fubftance, which the Greeks call indicum, the Ara- important organ in the body, it is obvious that every de- 



liian writers, Avicenna, Serapion, and others, have called rangement to which it is expofed mull occafion fome 



ml; though the fame word is alfo fometimes ufed by correfponding derangement in other parts of the fyftem, 



them for the pigment made from woad. See Indigo- and that it muft fuller, in its turn, whenever any diftant 



PERA. organ is much indifpofcd ; and hence, that indigeilion will 



Indicum Folium. See Folium and Tamalapatra. moll frequently be accompanied with various adventitious 



INDICUSCALMU.s,inA^a/tt/-a///j?ory, is a foffd coralline fymptoms, and that it will be of two kinds, idiopathic 



Tjody, fuppofed formerly to reprefent fome fpecies of reed, and fympathetic, according as the ftomach itfelf, or fome 



tefet with ftars on the fiirface. other organ, is the feat of the primary diforder. It is of 



Indi(U.s Cocculus. Sec Cocculus. the idiopathic indigeilion, however, that we particularly treat 



Isdk:u.s<7<7/»/-, aterm ufed by feveralof the ancient writers at prefent. 



to exprefs black. The generality of the Greek and Roman The fymptoms which charafterize idiopathic dyfpepft/i, 



phyficians of old times have called the black lignum aloes, are an irregular, but commonly deficient appetite, with oc- 



4tgtdlochum indicum ; and the only black kind of myrobalin cafional fqueamiflinefs, fometimes aftual vomiting ; — a fenfe 



they were acquainted with, was in the fame manner called of load and diftention of the ftomach after meals, followed 



the indicum ; not that thefe were fuppofed peculiarly the by eruftations of air, or of fohd or fluid matter, of various 



produft of the Indies, in diilintlion from the paler lignum qualities, acid, pungent, nidorous, or infipid ;— heariburii, 



aloes, or the other myrobalan ; but that they were of that and pains in the region of the ftomach. Some or all of 



colour which they called indicus color. thefe fymptoms occur at different times or in different in- 



Indku.s crflus. See Co.s'rus. dividuals, and are commonly combined with irregularity 



INDIES, Ea.st, in Geography, comprehends that vaft of the bowels, which are molt frequently coftive, but fome- 



traft of country, which is fituated in the fouth of Tartary, times lax, or in each of thefe dates by turns. The mouth 



between Perfia and China, as well as the iflands in the Eaft and throat are ufually dry, efpccially in the morning, and 



Indian fea, fuch as Borneo, Sumatra, Ceylon, .lava, the the tongue is at the lame time furred, and of a white or 



Mahli Ts, Cilobes, Moluccas, Philippines, &c. See India yellow colour, and there is a difagreeable tafte on the 



and HiNnoosTAN, and each ifland feparately. palate. 



IxDiKs, Wejl, includes iflands of the Atlantic, which Tliefe are the direft indications of a deranged condition 



extend from the well of Florida, in a curve, to the coaft of of the ftomach itfelf, and the confequent irritation of ill. 



Surinam, in South America, from W. long. 58 ;o' to digellcd aliiiHMit. The fenfe <rf load is occafioned by the 



rcmora 



