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acidity in their (lomach, is oftener an effect than a caufe 
of their complaints. It is not acidity, but its excels, that 
injures. 
The redundant acid in the prima: via; is known by the 
fournefs of the eradiations, the frequent cardialgia, with 
curdling of the chyle, Sec. in the (lomach, flatulence, and 
fpafms in the inteflines ; when this caufe is excellive in its 
degree, the bile is inert, the belly coflive, and the nou- 
rifitment is unduly fupplied, a palenefs becomes general 
in the (kin, an itching comes on, and puftules appear here 
and there, and a train of nervous fymptoms loon fucceed. 
Indeed in all difeafes peculiar to children, there are for 
the moll part the fymptoms of an excefs of irritation, the 
pulfe fometimes beats one hundred, or one hundred and 
twenty, in a minute, the (lomach is (ick, the vefl'els of the 
(kin are contracted, and epileptic or convuHive fymptoms 
appear. 
Infants are frequently fwept oft'by this diforder. Among 
adults, the weakly and fedentary are the only 1'ubjeCts of 
it, except among the poor, whole (canty fupplies reduce 
them to this unhappy (late. 
The cure, when adults are the fubjeCts, confilts of a diet 
fitted to oppofe this faulty habit; animal food, and vege¬ 
tables of the aromatic alkaline kind : thefe, with moderate 
exercife at proper intervals, bid fair for a recovery. Ab- 
(brbent medicine may palliate fymptoms in the (lomach and 
inteflines, but the limat. ferri will moll conduce to an ef¬ 
fectual and lading cure. Children fhould be exercifed 
more, and fed lei's, than is ufual; irregularity in thefe be¬ 
get.-. flatus, acidity, &c. Antimonial emetics repeated at 
intervals of two or three days, until the more difagreeable 
fymptoms abate, are highly ufeful. Small doles of P, 
Rhaei, with magnef. alb. fo as to keep the belly foluble, 
is better than purging; and to this end give fmall dofes 
frequently. To free from flatulency, R ol. ell', fern. f;e- 
nic. d. gr. i. ocul. 69. pp. gr. v—-x. m. Cerep. bis vel ter 
in die. As to abforbents, a mixture of the magnefia alba 
w ith the ocul. 69. or other calcareous earths, ought gene¬ 
rally to be preferred, and the dofes fhould be very fre¬ 
quently repeated until fome relief is obtained, and then 
their didances may be increafed. Indeed in fome cafes, 
fmall dofes of fixed, or volatile alkali, particularly liquor. 
C. C. have been highly beneficial, and warm dimulant 
plaiflers applied to the umbilical region. 
ACIDULOUS,a^/'.denotesathing llightly acid; it is fy- 
nonymous with the word fub-add. 
ACIDUL^ds.yi [thatis ,aquaaddukz. ] Medicinal fprings 
impregnated with (harp particles, as all the nitrous, chaly¬ 
beate, and alum, fprings are.—The adduL 2, or medical 
fprings, emit a greater quantity of their minerals than 
Ufual; and, even the ordinary fprings, which were before 
clear, frefh, and limpid, become thick and turbid, and are 
impregnated with fulphur and other minerals, as long as 
the earthquake lads. Woodward. 
Mineral w'aters that contain a brifk fpirit when unac¬ 
companied with heat are thus named; but, if they are hot 
alfo, they are called thermae. In ParacelfusjWc/r aceto- 
J'um is of the fame import. As to the antiquity of their 
ufe, fee Galen, Ccelius Aurelianus, Pliny, &c. who fpeak 
largely of their virtues. 
Hoffman and many authors highly extol them, whilfl 
others obferve that a pure water, on account of its fimpli- 
city, fuch as that from Malvern and Toplitz fprings, is to 
be preferred both for drinking and for bathing; and that, 
in want of thefe, they may be well fupplied by diddled 
rain, or any other that is foft and pure. Objectors fay, 
that the medicinal qualities in thefe w'aters only quicken 
their operation as w'ater, but contribute nothing farther, 
and that folutions of the like materials are of equal effica¬ 
cy : to which the bed reply has been, that the mineral 
contents are often volatile, and of parts more fubtil than 
thofe of art’s producing; and that, when the powers of na¬ 
ture are expiring, experience proves their efficacy by their 
fuccefs as a lad refource. 
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In general their views are according to the qualities ol 
their contents; thefe known, their ufe is eafily determined 
Bleeding, or purging, or both, are frequently preferibed 
before the ufe of mineral waters; but, except a plethora 
attends, they are not to be admitted. As thefe waters are 
defigned to pafs, fo red or exercife mud be advifed ; red 
and a cool (dilation favour their diuretic tendency ; exer¬ 
cife and a warm air determine them to the (kin ; thefe, ob- 
ferved with temperance and moderation in the regimen, are 
the principal directions on which fuccefs depends. 
Their brifk fparkling property is owing to the quantity 
of fixed air which they polfefs; and indeed to this, per¬ 
haps, is owing their chief ufe as medicine. 
To ACIDULATE, v. a. (adduler , Fr.] To impregnate 
or tinge with acids in a flight degree. 
ACIDULATED, f. a name given to medicines that 
have an acid in their compofition. 
ACIDUM AEREUM,/! the fame with Fixed Air. 
Acidum pingue ,J. an imaginary ac:d, which fome 
German chemids fuppoied- to be contained in fire, and by 
combining with alkalies, lime, &c. to give them their cau- 
flic properties; an effect which is found certainly to de¬ 
pend on the lofs of their fixed air. 
ACILA, Ocii.a, oi Ocei.is, anciently a ftapleor mart 
town in Arabia Felix, on the Arabian gulf, from which, 
according to Pliny, they let fail for India. Now Ziden. 
ACILIUS GLABRIO (Marcus), conful in the year of 
Rome 562, and 211 years before the Chriftian tera, diftiri- 
guiflied hunfelf by his bravery and conduct in gaining a 
complete victory over Antiochus the Great, king of Sy¬ 
ria, at the (traits of Thermopylae in Theflaly, and on fe- 
veral other occafions. He built the Temple of Piety at 
Rome, in coniequence of a vow he made before the above- 
mentioned battle: and the reafon of his giving it that 
name is very remarkable. Theftory is mentioned by Pli¬ 
ny, Valerius Maximus, and others. 
ACIN ACES^yi in antiquity, a kind of feymetar or cut- 
lafs tiled among the Perfians. 
AC1N1PPO, anciently a tow n of Boetica; its ruins, 
called Rorida la Viega, are to be feen near Arunda, in the 
kingdom of Granada. 
ACINODENDRUM,/. in botany, the trivial name of 
a fpecies of Mf.lastoma. 
AC1N0S,_/1 in botany, a trivial name of a fpecies of 
Thymus. See Thymus. 
ACINUS, or Acini, f. the fmall protuberances of mul¬ 
berries, ftrawberries, &c. and by fome applied to grapes. 
Generally it is ufed for thofe fmall grains growing in 
bunches, after the manner of grapes, as liguflrum. Sec. 
AC1S, in fabulous hiltory, the fon of Faunus and Si- 
metheis, was a beautiful (hepherd of Sicily, who being 
beloved by Galatea, Polyphemus the giant was fo enraged, 
that he dufhed out his brains again!! a rock; after which 
Galatea turned him into a river, which was called by his 
name. 
Acis (Ovid, Theocritus); a river of Sicily, running 
from a very cold fpring, in the w oody and fliady foot of 
mount AEtna, eafhvard into, and not much above a mile 
from, the fea, along green and pleafant banks, with the 
fpeed of an arrow, from which it takes its name. It is 
now' called Aci Iaci, or Chinci, according to the different 
Sicilian dialects : Antonine calls it Acius. Alfo the name 
of a hamlet at the mouth of the Acis. 
To ACKNOWLEDGE, v. a. [a word formed, as it 
feems, between the Latin and Engliffi, from agnofeo, and. 
knowledge, which is deduced from c/iathan. Sax. to know . j 
To own the knowledge of; toownany thing or perfioninsi 
particular character: 
None that acknowledge God, or Providence, 
Their foul’s eternity did ever doubt. Davis. 
Toconfefs; as, a fault.—For I acknowledge my tranfgref- 
fions; and my fin is ever before me. Rfalm, ii. 3.—To 
own; as, a benefit; fometimes with the particle to before 
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