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  • ASSIMILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIMILATION

    ASSIMILATIO,in Physics, is properly a Motion whereby Bodies convert other duly disposed Bodies, into a Nature like, or homogeneous to their own. See MOTION, BODY, etc. Some Philosophers call it, the Motion of Multiplication, meaning, that Bodies are...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AGGREGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AGGREGATION

    Accretion, in Physics, a species of union, whereby several things which have no natural dependence or connection with one another, are collected together, so as in some sense to constitute one. See UNION. Thus, a heap of sand, or a mass of ruins, are...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • APOTHECARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOTHECARY

    a Person who practices Pharmacy, or that part of Physics which consists in the Preparation and Composition of Medicines. See PHARMACY and MEDICINE. Nicholas Langius has written a large Volume expressly against the Apothecaries, their errors in pro quos...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANTIDOTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIDOTE

    ANTIDOTE, a Remedy taken either to prevent or cure Contagion. See PHYSIC, CONTAGION, PRESERVATIVE, etc. The Word Antidote is also used to signify a Medicine taken to prevent the ill Effects of some other, for instance, Poison. See POISON. In this Sense,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACORUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACORUS

    ACORUS, a Medicinal Plant, of the Rush or Flag Kind;frequently confounded by the Ancients, and also by the modern Apothecaries, with the Calamus Odoratus. See CALAMUS.There are two Species of Acorus; the Verus, or true, and the false—They are...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION

    ANIMAL SECRETION is the Act whereby the divers Juices of the Body are secreted or separated from the common Mass of Blood, by means of the Glands. See SECRETION, BLOOD, and GLAND. The Theory of Animal Secretion is one of the Improvements in Physic, for...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE

    AMBER-GREASE, Ambergrease, Amber-Grise, Ambarum, a fragrant drug, that melts almost like wax; commonly of a greyish or ash-color, used both as a perfume and a cordial. It is found on the sea-coasts, in several countries; as along the southern and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AGNUS Castushttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGNUS%20Castus

    AGNUS Castus, a shrub, was famous among the ancients as a specific for the preservation of chastity, and the preventing of all venereal desires, pollutions, etc. The Greeks called it "Agnos," to which has since been added the reduplicative Castus, q.d....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANADIPLOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ANADIPLOSIS

    ANADIPLOSIS, in Rhetoric, a Figure, in which one Verse begins with the same Word wherewith the former ended. See FIGURE. The Word is sometimes also used in Physic, for a Reduplication of the Fits, or Paroxysms of Fevers; in which Sense, some Writers...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Rhetoric

  • ADDITAMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDITAMENT

    ADDITAMENT, Additamentum, a thing added to another. See ADDITION. Additaments, in Physic and Chemistry, are things superadded to the ordinary ingredients of any composition. ADDITAMENT

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASPALATHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPALATH

    ASPALATH, Aspalathum,in Pharmacy, is the Wood of a prickly Tree, heavy, oleaginous, somewhat sharp and bitter to the Taste, of a strong Smell and Purple Colour. See Wood. The Aspalath is otherwise called Rhodium, or Rosewood, and was anciently in much...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AGARIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/pharmacy/AGARIC

    AGARIC, or Fauagus Agaricus, in pharmacy, a kind of fungous excrescence growing on the trunks, and large branches of several trees; but chiefly on the larch-tree, and certain oaks. See FUNGUS. Dioscorides derives its name from a province of Sarmatia,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Pharmacy

  • ANTHORAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ANTHORA

    ANTHORA, or Healing Wolfs-bane, a Species of Aconite, whose Root is useful in Physic; being reputed a good Antidote, and a certain Counterpoison to the Chora, whence its Denomination Anthora. See ACONITE. The Root contains a great deal of volatile Salt...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ANOMALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ANOMALY

    ANOMALY, in Astronomy, is the Distance of a Planet from the Aphelion or Apogee; or an irregularity in the Motion of a Planet, whereby it deviates from the Aphelion or Apogee. See PLANET, APHELION, and APOGEE. Kepler distinguishes three kinds of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Astronomy

  • ANODYNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ANODYNE

    ANODYNE, in Physic, is understood of such Remedies, as by their gentle Heat and temperate Moisture, calm and assuage Pain. See PAIN. These are also called Paregorics. See PAREGORICS. There are others, which bear the same name, but improperly, viz. such...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ANATOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/anatomy

    ANATOMY, the Art of dissecting, or artificially taking to pieces, the solid Parts of Animal Bodies; in order to an exact Discovery of their Structure and Economy. See ANIMAL, BODY, DISSECTION, and ECONOMY. Anatomy makes a great Branch of that Division...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Anatomy

  • ARGILLAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARGILLA

    ARGILLA, or Argil, a white earth, like chalk, but more brittle; of some use in physic. See EARTH, CHALK, etc. The word is sometimes also used for potter's earth, or clay. See POTTERY, CLAY, etc. ARGILLA

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AVERAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVERAGE

    AVERAGE, AVERAGIUM, in Law, that Duty or Service which the Tenant is to pay the King, or other Lord, by his Beasts and Carriages. See SERVICE. The Word is derived from the base Latin, Averia, or the French, Oeuvre, Work. AVERAGE is also used in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ACRASIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACRASIA

    ACRASIA, ἀκρασία, is used by some Writers in Physic, for the Excess or Predominancy of one Quality above another ; either in a Mixture, or in the Constitution of a human Body. See CRASIS, TEMPERAMENT, CONSTITUTION. ACRASIA

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics
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