A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...fine powder, three hundred and sixty grains; myrrh, in -ne powder, half a troyounce; oil of peppermint, half a fluidrachm. Beat them together with water, so ns to form - pilular mass, to be divided into two hundred and forty pills. Pllnl- Mn-po 1 Coin- I-tnv ( Compound Pill- 0f Soap.") Tako of opium, in fine powder, sixty grains; -oap, ih fine powder, half a troyounce. "wt them togclbor with water, so as to lorui a pilular mass. This is a convenient Reparation for administering opium in " nDcl readily soluble form, in nipan genus of the class fiUrcin, natural order Terebinthavetr, or A nacardiacem. Pistacia Ijcn-tte'cue. The shrub which yields mastic, or mastiuk. See Mastic. PistitVia Tcr-c-bln finis. The tree which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine. Pwrta'claVe'ra. ("Trne Pistacia.") A tree which yields the pistacia-nut and a fixed oil, which is used to form an excellent emulsion in irritation of tho urethra. Plat lacea?, (r) pis-te-a'she-c. From Pit'tift, one of the genera. A synonym of a natural order of plants. Seo Lem NACF--. PK til. (Pistil lam; from pin', pie'tum, to "bray," or "bruise." Literally, a "pestle: " so named from Iho resemblance in form. A pointai; the female organ of generation in plants: tho ovule-bearing organ of a flower. The pistils and stamens are tbe essential organs of a flower. PK-tSl-la'riK.'-From pintiVlum, a "pistil." Pertaining to a pistil. Pis lll-latc. From the same. Furnished with pistils, or with pistils only. Pb-til-lir'or-oiw. PlKllIIil crus: from pinUl'tum, a "pistil," and/eVo, to "bear." "Hearing or having pistils..